The palliative care of common advanced malignancies
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Lung cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
For each presentation and condition, Advanced Trainees will know how to:
Synthesise
- recognise the clinical presentation
- identify relevant epidemiology, prevalence, pathophysiology, and clinical science
- take a comprehensive clinical history
- conduct an appropriate examination
- establish a differential diagnosis
- plan and arrange appropriate investigations
- consider the impact of illness and disease on patients and their quality of life when developing a management plan
Manage
- provide evidence-based management
- prescribe therapies tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
- recognise potential complications of disease and its management, and initiate preventative strategies
- involve multidisciplinary teams
Consider other factors
- identify individual and social factors and the impact of these on diagnosis and management
The palliative care of less common advanced malignancies
- Anal cancer
- Cancer of unknown primary
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Gastric cancer
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Gynaecological cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Hepatocellular cancer
- Leukaemia
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Nasopharyngeal cancer
- Neuroendocrine tumours (NET)
- Oesophageal cancer
- Renal cell cancer
- Sarcoma
- Thyroid cancer
- Transitional cell carcinoma
For each presentation and condition, Advanced Trainees will know how to:
Synthesise
- recognise the clinical presentation
- identify relevant epidemiology, prevalence, pathophysiology, and clinical science
- take a comprehensive clinical history
- conduct an appropriate examination
- establish a differential diagnosis
- plan and arrange appropriate investigations
- consider the impact of illness and disease on patients and their quality of life when developing a management plan
Manage
- provide evidence-based management
- prescribe therapies tailored to patients’ needs and conditions
- recognise potential complications of disease and its management, and initiate preventative strategies
- involve multidisciplinary teams
Consider other factors
- identify individual and social factors and the impact of these on diagnosis and management
Palliative care-related aspects of the following
- Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy
- Epidemiology of common cancers
- Pathophysiology of cancer
- Pharmacology of systemic anticancer therapy, such as:
- chemotherapy
- hormonal therapy
- immunotherapy
- targeted therapy
- Radioisotope therapy
- Radiotherapy
- Stem cell transplant:
Investigations
- Blood tests, including tumour markers
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Biopsy - other
- Cytology
- Endoscopy
- Imaging, such as:
- CT scan
- endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
- MRI
- PET scan
- ultrasound
- x-ray
- Lumbar puncture
Procedures
- Ascitic tap
- Biliary stenting
- Gastrointestinal stents
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Pericardial:
- Pleural tap
- Pleurodesis
- Ureteric stenting
