Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

In this week’s episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care be in the business of caring for them? Spoiler: It’s more complicated than it seems.

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo, a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker, an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. This episode is a must-listen for those navigating the evolving landscape of cancer care, and asking not just how we treat cancer, but how we support people who are living with it.

If you want some further reading on survivorship, check out some of these articles:

• A NEJM article titled “Time to Study Metastatic-Cancer Survivorship”

• A ASCO publication that includes a section on survivorship - Patient-Centered Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

• A webinar on survivorship - Blending Survivorship and Palliative Care (NCI)