Relieve the suffering: palliative care for the next decade

William E Rosa¹, Stephen Connor², Ghauri Aggarwal³, Samy Alsirafy⁴, Joanne Brennan⁵, Helena Davies², Julia Downing⁶, Betty Ferrell⁷, Richard Harding⁸, Felicia Marie Knaul⁹, Emmanuel B K Luyirika¹⁰, María M Marroquín¹¹, Joan Marston¹², Lukas Radbruch¹³, M R Rajagopal¹⁴, Libby Sallnow¹⁵, Eric L Krakauer¹⁶

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¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York 10017, NY, USA. Electronic address: rosaw@mskcc.org.
² Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, London, UK.
³ Concord Centre for Palliative Care, Concord Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Palliative Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁵ European Association for Palliative Care, Vilvoorde, Belgium.
⁶ International Children's Palliative Care Network, Bristol, UK; Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
⁷ Division of Nursing Research and Education, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA; End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, Duarte, CA, USA.
⁸ Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey Faculty of Excelente, Mexico City, Mexico; Tómatelo a Pecho, Asociación Civil, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹⁰ African Palliative Care Association, Kampala, Uganda.
¹¹ Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos, Bogota, Colombia.
¹² Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹³ International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
¹⁴ Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, Pallium India, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India.
¹⁵ Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁶ Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Global Palliative Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Ethics, Social Medicine and Palliative Care, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

PMID: 40258379
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00678-6

Relieve the suffering: palliative care for the next decade

William E Rosa et al. Lancet. 2025.

. 2025 May 24;405(10492):1802-1804.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00678-6. Epub 2025 Apr 18.

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York 10017, NY, USA. Electronic address: rosaw@mskcc.org.
² Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, London, UK.
³ Concord Centre for Palliative Care, Concord Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Palliative Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
⁵ European Association for Palliative Care, Vilvoorde, Belgium.
⁶ International Children's Palliative Care Network, Bristol, UK; Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
⁷ Division of Nursing Research and Education, Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA; End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, Duarte, CA, USA.
⁸ Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey Faculty of Excelente, Mexico City, Mexico; Tómatelo a Pecho, Asociación Civil, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹⁰ African Palliative Care Association, Kampala, Uganda.
¹¹ Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos, Bogota, Colombia.
¹² Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
¹³ International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
¹⁴ Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, Pallium India, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India.
¹⁵ Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁶ Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Global Palliative Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Ethics, Social Medicine and Palliative Care, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

PMID: 40258379
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00678-6

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SC is Executive Director of Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA). SA is a board member for WHPCA. LR is Chair of the board of directors of the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care (IAHPC). LS provided an April, 2025 plenary for the Asia Pacific Hospice Network conference in Malaysia, for which travel and accommodation was provided by the conference organisers, and was the lead author for the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. RH is a trustee for the Marie Curie charity, Co-Chair of the African Palliative Care Association Research Network, a steering committee member for the British HIV Association, and Vice-Chair of the WHPCA (all unpaid). FMK receives consulting fees from Merck, EMD Serono, and Tecnológico de Monterrey; received financial support for travel to St Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN, USA); is the founding President of Tómatelo a Pecho, Asociación Civil, a Senior Economist for the Mexican Health Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of the IAHPC; and was Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. WER is partially supported by the National Cancer Institute–US National Institutes of Health comprehensive cancer center award (P30CA008748) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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