Understanding Advanced Cancer and Palliative Care with Laura Petrillo, MD

Oncology Overdrive

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Laura Petrillo, MD, about navigating patients through changes and goals in palliative care, understanding patients living with and surviving advanced cancer and more. • Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 • About Petrillo 1:03 • The interview 1:40 • How did you find yourself in medicine, specifically in palliative care and geriatrics? 2:04 • How has the evolution of cancer care and technology impacted the way you engage and deliver palliative care? 6:46 • Jain and Petrillo on the effect changes in palliative care can have on patients. 12:47 • How do you communicate the distinctions between palliative care and hospice care to patients and physicians? 17:19 • Do you think that there are ways for people outside of palliative care can incorporate intentional communication with patients in their care? … When should you refer someone to palliative care? 23:45 • Petrillo and Jain on advanced cancer survivorship and living with advanced cancer. 30:54 • Jain and Reynolds on the progress made in this space and the road ahead. 29:43 • If someone could only listen to the last two minutes of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 36:41 • How to contact Petrillo 38:30 • Thanks for listening 38:58

Laura Petrillo, MD, is a palliative care physician-investigator in the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics at MGH and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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