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Ongoing ABC-SC projects include:

• What is supportive care?
• Identifying palliative care needs
• Pain medication profile
• Assessing research team development

Impact

Expected results include:

• new insights and interventions by cancer patient navigators who screen for distress
• a framework for guidelines for pain and other symptom control using medications
• development of a study of physical activity
• greater understanding of factors that influence the likelihood of receiving supportive cancer care including:
  • the impact of having diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease
  • living in a rural area
  • minority culture status
  • socio-demographic factors
• data to demonstrate the importance of listening to the views of next-of-kin
• an analysis of the type and extent of costs of supportive cancer care