Together but still alone - A qualitative study exploring how family members of persons with incurable oesophageal or gastric cancer manage everyday life

The results may contribute to an awareness of family members' management of large parts of everyday life and, further, their feelings of loneliness, and indicates that family members should be included early in oesophageal or gastric cancer palliative care. Further studies are needed to develop the content of such family-inclusive early palliative care.