Palliative care 🩺 Dad 👶🏻 Gomez 🐶 Music 🎵 Guinea pigs 🐹 Personal account Threads 🧵to encourage discussion. “Be a voice of comfort in the silence of pain”
Every palliative care thread 🧵 I’ve ever done in one place. Just click on the box below and you will find them in the replies section- updated every month ⭐️
Cheers, chills, and a standing ovation when RASolute 302 showed unprecedented survival on daraxonrasib for patients with progressive pancreatic cancer
Seldom do you sense you’re witnessing a historic moment in cancer care but this feels like ras targeting has arrived
#ASCO26
It was my mum’s 7th year Anniversary this week.
I don’t think we talk enough about how confusing it can be for health care professionals to reconcile their knowledge, experience and expectations with the reality of a loved one dying.
Writing This thread helped me somehow
Pancreatic cancer:
Palliative care reflections
A thread 🧵
Difficult to manage on so many levels.
My mum died from this condition and I was very grateful that she had the support of palliative care at home, in hospital and eventually the hospice.
Some things I’ve learned 👇
Autonomic dysreflexia: quick thread
An important condition to be aware of and be prepared for in any patient with a spinal cord injury or malignant compression at the level of T6 or above
Cancer cachexia in palliative care
A Thread 🧵
The term Cachexia originates from the Greek words Kakos and Hexis and translates to “bad physical state”
It is estimated to be the direct cause of death in up to 20% of cancer patients.
Cheyne Stokes respiration at end of life- Thread
Can be scary to witness for family, loved ones and health care professionals looking on.
Understanding a little about what is happening may help alleviate some of that distress 🧵
Encouraging advance in pancreatic cancer, an area with often very poor prognosis & fewer options than other cancers. Compared to conventional treatment, Daraxonrasib incr survival in metast pancreatic cancer in this landmark @NEJM trial:
- doubling of median survival time
- 12-month survival tripled ( from 18% to 53%)
- Improved ability to continue with treatment - only 1.2% stopped treatment versus 11.2%
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https://t.co/1oDD6omV5H
@drol007 Sometimes we need to do what is considered general as specialists, leading by example and also for a bit of self preservation. When all you see is the most “complex” you can get desensitised to what others view as “complex” - thresholds for accepting referrals follow suit