What Is Palliative Care for Lung Cancer Patients?
Handling a lung cancer diagnosis can be frightening and overwhelming. Sometimes treatment for lung cancer can be just as overwhelming as your body goes through changes. During treatment for lung cancer, you may experience adverse symptoms, including pain. You may need to seek treatment for these symptoms, known as palliative care.
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care focuses on relieving symptoms, pain, and stress during cancer treatment to improve your quality of life. It can help you and your family understand your treatment options and plan and assist in making challenging choices. If you undergo surgery or chemotherapy as part of your lung cancer treatment, palliative care can help you manage your symptoms or post-operative care. Palliative care can also help you deal with:
- Navigating the medical system:
- Palliative care social workers can help create a discharge plan for you and your family, and specialists can ensure that your medical team is all on the same page.
- Stress:
- Lung cancer treatment can often result in anxiety, depression, and stress in patients. Palliative care treatment can help with medication, massage, counseling, guided imagery, and more.
How to Get Palliative Care
Your insurance may cover palliative care. You can ask your doctor for a referral, and you or a family member can call your insurance for a pre-authorization for treatment and to discover related costs. You can also interview palliative care teams to discuss your goals for care and any symptoms you’re having.
You Need an Experienced Attorney
When you or a loved one faces a lung cancer diagnosis, treatment can be hard on the body and the mind. But you don’t have to go through this alone. Palliative care can help you and your family deal with the stress and pain of treatment. Moreover, you may be entitled to compensation if your cancer diagnosis is related to asbestos or other toxic exposure.The experienced attorneys at the Madeksho Law Firm have been helping people get the compensation they deserve since 1972, and they can help you too. Call us 888-910-6376 or contact us online. Your initial consultation is free, and you won’t pay a dime unless we recover compensation on your behalf.
