Palliative care is a comprehensive approach, the purpose of which is to ensure the maximum possible quality of life of palliative patients and their family members, by preventing and alleviating suffering due to early detection and accurate diagnosis of pain symptoms and disorders of vital activity, carrying out adequate treatment measures, symptomatic (adjuvant) therapy and care , provision of psychological, social, spiritual and moral support, regardless of the disease, age, social status, nationality, religious and political beliefs, place of residence of the patient, etc. Palliative care is based on a complex interdisciplinary assessment of the patient's physical condition, degree of pain syndrome and disorders of vital functions, psycho-emotional, cognitive and cultural characteristics, maximum possible and comprehensive consideration of the needs and wishes of the patient and his family, prognosis of disease progression and life expectancy. The provision of palliative care begins from the moment of diagnosis of an incurable progressive disease and a limited life prognosis and continues until the end of the family's grieving period.