“I think when you look at averages in terms of who is doing palliative care in the hospital, everybody’s quality of life on an average basis goes down during transplant just because it’s a hard process,” offers Dr. Newcomb. “But, receiving palliative care was mostly trying to prevent a very large decrement in quality of life or a very large increase in symptoms. And what was interesting is that there were people in the responder group that their quality of life got better throughout the transplant hospitalization.”
