Palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies: are we meeting patients' needs early enough?

With all this information and the clear benefit for early integrated palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies, there is a need for novel models of palliative care and cancer care integration. Given the various needs of patients with different hematologic malignancies, we propose how palliative care can meet the unique needs of patients with hematologic malignancy by disease subtype.