Abstract: Support / palliative care for cancer patients is a wide range of diagnosis and treatment systems. Successful support/palliative care involoves through disease diagnosis, treatment and end-stage throughout, and cancer survivor(including treatment and disability)management.Support / palliative care in the disease at different stages have different goals.This article introduces American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO), European Society for Medical Oncology(ESMO),The National Comprehensive Cancer Network(NCCN)academic organization issued a number of key updates support/palliative care related guidelines. These updates will bring new thinking to the development of tumor support/palliative care in China.

Key words: support/palliative care, guideline update, cancer