Prognostic Awareness, Palliative Care Use, and Barriers to Palliative Care in Patients Undergoing Immunotherapy or Chemo-Immunotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer

Laurie E. McLouth; Jennifer Gabbard; Beverly J. Levine; Shannon L. Golden; Thomas W. Lycan; W. Jeffrey Petty; Kathryn E. Weaver

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Prognostic Awareness, Palliative Care Use, and Barriers to Palliative Care in Patients Undergoing Immunotherapy or Chemo-Immunotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer

Laurie E. McLouth, Jennifer Gabbard, Beverly J. Levine, Shannon L. Golden, Thomas W. Lycan, W. Jeffrey Petty, Kathryn E. Weaver

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Background and Objectives: This study describes patients' prognostic awareness and palliative care use in the setting of immunotherapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC). Design: We surveyed 60 mNSCLC patients receiving immunotherapy at a large academic medical center; conducted follow-up interviews with 12 survey participants; and abstracted palliative care use, advance directive completion, and death within a year of survey completion from the medical record. Results: Forty seven percent of patients surveyed thought they would be cured; 83% were not interested in palliative care. Interviews suggested oncologists emphasized therapeutic options when discussing prognosis and that commonly used descriptions of palliative care may exacerbate misperceptions. Only 7% had received outpatient palliative care and 8% had an advance directive a year after the survey; only 16% of the 19 patients who died had received outpatient palliative care. Conclusions: Interventions are needed to facilitate prognostic discussions and outpatient palliative care during immunotherapy. Clinical Trial Registration Number NCT03741868.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	831-836
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Palliative Medicine
Volume	26
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0352
State	Published - Jun 1 2023

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This study was supported by the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina Research Fellow Grant (L.E.M.) and the Wake Forest CTSA Grant UL1TR001420. L.E.M. was supported by NCI R25CA122061 (PI: Avis), 2 KL2 TR 001996-05A1. This study was also supported by the Qualitative and Patient-Reported Outcomes (Q-PRO) Shared Resource of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU), P30 CA012197.

Funders	Funder number
CCCWFU	P30 CA012197
Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University
National Childhood Cancer Registry – National Cancer Institute	R25CA122061, 2 KL2 TR 001996-05A1

Keywords

immunotherapy
nivolumab
non-small cell lung cancer
palliative care
pembrolizumab
treatment expectations

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General Nursing
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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Prognostic Awareness, Palliative Care Use, and Barriers to Palliative Care in Patients Undergoing Immunotherapy or Chemo-Immunotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer. / McLouth, Laurie E.; Gabbard, Jennifer; Levine, Beverly J. et al.
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