What is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care is compassionate comfort care that provides relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious or life-limiting illness. Care is provided by a trained team of medical specialists who work together with a patient’s other doctors to provide an extra layer of support, and can be pursued at diagnosis, during curative treatment and follow-up, and at the end of life. It is comfort care with or without curative intent, and is based on the needs of the patient, not on the patient’s prognosis.