11. Palliative care – Thyroid Cancer

Palliative care is defined as an approach to improving the quality of life of patients and their families who are faced with problems associated with a life-threatening illness. This is done by preventing and alleviating suffering through early detection, careful assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems. Regarding palliative care aspects, regardless of the underlying diagnosis, please refer to the S3 guideline on palliative care of the German Guideline Program in Oncology.