肿瘤患者支持治疗的进展

肿瘤支持治疗是与肿瘤放疗、化疗和手术并重的治疗手段。肿瘤支持治疗包括从肿瘤诊断开始一直到生命结束的全程，其内容相当宽泛，且对于延长患者生存期，改善生存质量，节约医疗成本等均具有重要意义。随着研究的不断深入，肿瘤支持治疗在各领域均取得了一系列重要进展，其作用也越来越受到重视。尤为重要的是，医患认知从传统治疗理念发生根本性转变，使肿瘤支持治疗的发展前景焕发蓬勃生机。目前，肿瘤支持治疗逐渐向多学科整合、以患者为中心的个体化、全程化的管理及数字化方向发展。未来，随着学科分支的精细化和基础转化研究的不断深入，肿瘤患者的支持治疗必将形成一个完整的学科，造福广大的癌症患者。 

Research progress on supportive care for cancer patients

Supportive care is equally important as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery in cancer treatment. The content of supportive care in cancer is quite broad and includes the entire process from the beginning of tumor diagnosis to the end of patients’ life. Effective tumor supportive care is helpful in prolonging patients’ survival, improving their quality of life, and decreasing medical costs. In recent years, with the advances in clinical and basic research, a series of important progress has been made in various areas of supportive care in cancer, and its role has attracted further attention. It is particularly important that the cognition of doctors and patients has fundamentally changed from the traditional treatment concept, making the development of supportive care a topical need. Currently, supportive care is gradually being developed toward multidisciplinary integration, patient-centered individualization, whole-process management, and digitalization. In the future, with the refinement of discipline branches and the deepening of basic translational research, supportive care in cancer will form an integrated system, from which more patients with cancer would benefit.