Pediatric palliative care in patients with brain tumors: Timing, activation, and management of acute events
The highest percentage of our patients referred to Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) are those with brain tumors. Of these, we analyzed PPC activation modes and timing, occurrence of acute events during the period of PPC activation, and the time between acute event and death.
During the period 1 January 2010 to 31 October 2023 approximately 1000 Cranial Nervous System (CNS) tumor patients were treated at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan.