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The study involved 174 mesothelioma patients who were randomly assigned standard of care alone or early specialist palliative care, which involved visits every four weeks.
The vast majority of the patients were men with the epithelioid subtype of mesothelioma and had high symptom burden.
Median age was 72.6 years, and 60 percent of those studied had at least one cycle of chemotherapy.
Brims’ study was designed for a 12- and 24-week assessment. It was inspired by a landmark U.S. trial in 2010 that showed early palliative care for lung cancer led to higher quality of life and longer survival.
He expected to find something similar, but was surprised by results of his study.
“At first, I was disappointed at the results,” Brims said.
“I intuitively thought [earlier palliative care] would help, but it was interesting to see that one size does not fit all. You can’t say everybody needs it or benefits from it.” The results showed virtually no difference in quality of life between the two groups at 12 weeks. The global health status quality-of-life score was 60.2 for the specialist group and 59.5 for the control group. At 24 weeks, it was 61.3 for the specialist group and 63.7 for the control. Researchers measured anxiety and depression using a scale called the GHQ-12, which yielded similar results with only a negligible difference in the two groups. By 24 weeks, 30 of the patients had died. The median survival in the control group was 12.6 months and 11.5 months in the specialist palliative care group.
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