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Table 1 Transition point definitions

From: A randomised phase II trial to examine feasibility of standardised, early palliative (STEP) care for patients with advanced cancer and their families [ACTRN12617000534381]: a research protocol

Prostate cancer

Presence of metastatic disease and multi-day hospital admission

Breast cancer

Presence of visceral metastatic disease (metastases involving organs other than bone only) and multi-day hospital admission

High grade glioma

Hospital presentation (inpatient or outpatient): first recurrence of primary HGG where pathological or clinical diagnosis is glioblastoma/WHO grade IV disease or first diagnosis of primary HGG and no cancer specific treatment being prescribed