THE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE OF THE PATIENT CARE TEAM IN PALLIATIVE ONCOLOGY CARE

Abstract

Palliative care is composed of an interdisciplinary care team with an approach with the purpose of improving the quality of life of the patient and their families. This research aims to discuss the interdisciplinary practice of the care team as an important ally in the palliative care of cancer patients based on a literature review. This was a bibliographic research that is justified by the need to mobilize a theoretical foundation, carried out in the databases through the search for electronic information: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), and in the virtual library Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), which were published between 2014 and 2024. As for the interdisciplinary practice of the cancer care team, it is considered an important ally because it enables a closer bond between professionals and between patients/families. It is concluded that the interdisciplinary practice of the oncology care team provides a greater approximation with patients and families, being evaluated and controlled not only pain, but all symptoms of physical, social, emotional and spiritual nature, with a palliative proposal, thus distancing itself from the assistentialist view.