[Focusing on Recent Trends in Clinical Oncology and Palliative Care]

The integration of standard oncology and palliative care has become common around the world. Since the proposal of this approach by ASCO in the late 1990s, and studies by Temel, et al on EBM using RCT in 2010, and by Kaasa, et al at the Lancet Oncology Commission in 2018, it seems that most of the world agrees. Today, there are increasing expectations that comprehensive cancer care should be carried out by a multidisciplinary team. However, this has been challenging due to significant ideological differences between cancer treatment based on natural science and palliative care, which is mainly based on social science. From this, the idea of"palliative oncology"developed, which is built on the premise that palliative care should exist as a science derived from symptomatic treatment. Therefore, clinical oncologists should provide palliative care to enable better integration in cancer care.