Top ten tips palliative care clinicians should know about interventional symptom management options when caring for patients with gastrointestinal malignancies.

Journal of Palliative |Medicine, 2018 21(9):1339-1343
Johnson AM, Spaete JP, Jowell PS, Kamal AH, Fisher DA.

Patients diagnosed with advanced stages of gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are often quite symptomatic, with symptoms primarily related to anatomic sites of obstruction. Issues that may help palliative care physicians recognize common presentations of advanced GI malignancies, address interventional approaches to improve symptom burden, and improve the quality of shared decision making and goals-of-care discussions are highlighted.