Abstract
Objective:This article sought to discuss the importance of palliative care in patient care, focusing on primary care as a crucial factor for comprehensive care. Literature review: The work assesses the role of the primary care team in contributing to the improvement and dissemination of assistance to patients with incurable diseases, highlighting the need to be carried out from the primary level of health care, with the aim of offering patients better quality of life and mitigation of suffering early in the diagnosis process, so that the entire health-disease process can be considered more dignified. Final considerations: In this sense, the article also reflects on the reality of palliative care in the national health system, highlighting the lack of legislation and the need to create official parameters and strategies that ensure the rights of patients according to the principles of comprehensiveness, universality and equity that govern our Unified Health System (SUS).