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Palliative Care for Mesothelioma Symptom Management and Quality of Life Improvement

palliative care for mesothelioma

This episode of MesoTV features Jacob Strand, MD in an interview with Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s nurse, Julie White, RN, BSN, OCN. The topic of conversation is palliative care for mesothelioma patients.

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Dr. Strand is currently Chair, Enterprise Center for Palliative Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Sciences. He sees hospitalized patients with complex symptom needs on the inpatient palliative care services and works closely with patients and their caregivers to manage complications of serious illness, particularly patients with cancer and advanced heart failure in the outpatient Symptom Management, Pain and Quality of Life Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Strand’s clinical research interests center around the integration of palliative medicine into the care of patients with cancer and advanced cardiac disease, management of complex cancer-related pain and barriers to cancer pain management. He participates in several active national research protocols and lectures nationally and internationally on these topics.

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