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Advance Care Planning as one part of Early integrated Palliative CareIn relation to the case report, although the stage of Mr. T's cancer was no longer amenable to curative treatment, and the patient raised concerns about his future, the oncologist felt that it was too early for the patient to get involved in questions around treatment and care decisions including ACP conversations. The question "what shall we do in case of…" was not thoroughly discussed by the oncologist.Early integrated PC into chronic life-limiting disease trajectories necessitates the timely definition of a treatment and care plan. An essential part of EPC is engaging early in the ACP discussions taking into consideration a holistic assessment about patients' physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. 71 Advance Care Planning can be defined as a process that helps to make sure that patients "… receive medical care that is consistent with their values, goals and preferences during serious and chronic illness." 12(p.826) There still exists ambiguity about the terms that are used for the ongoing process of planning and decision making for future treatment and care between patients and healthcare professionals as one part of EPC. The literature uses both terms "goals of care" (GOC) or "advance care planning" (ACP) to cover what is meant by discussing what is most important for patients with a life-limiting disease towards healthcare decision making. This interrelation between the two terms can often be found in the literature on tools for and outcomes of decisive discussion with patients about the question "what to do if…". 72 Conversations about GOC are often regarded as discussing and aligning treatment and care decisions in an actual clinical situation. 73 The discussion should be based on patients' values and beliefs that might impact the decision towards future treatment and care 74 and may be revisited as the patient's health and care situation changes. 12,75 In this thesis the author refers to the process of ACP that supports and enables patients at any age or stage of health in understanding and sharing their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding well-considered future treatment and care wishes. 12,76,77 Clinically, ACP is designated to anticipate potential complications and to agree on individually adapted therapeutic actions including but not limited to withdrawa...