Abstract
Palliative care is delivered to patients with uncurable illness and it is focused on patients' and their family's quality of life. It is not a "victory medicine", it does not deny death and not try to postpone it, but it is not either the nihilistic medicine, in the sense that "there is nothing to do".
It is an active medicine, trying to diminished suffering. Than the article concerns with the categorization of palliative care, and in details with the palliative care plan.
This plan is made individually, based on a clinical status of the patient, and also according his/her wishes. Patient with lung cancer is usually significantly symptomatic.
According to published data, there is an evidence, that early palliative care leads to not only to improvement of quality of life, lower incidence of depression, but also to prolonged survival. It is important to stress, that high-quality palliative care cannot be delivered in medical departments without the base of sufficient amount of educated care givers, with high professional and human value.