Introduction: In the field of palliative care, both symptomatic control and prevention of readmissions to health services are important, to the extent that the causes can be identified to generate strategies that optimize care and reduce them. According to the above, this integrative review aims to identify, through the scientific literature of the last five years, what are the symptoms for which patients with advanced oncological disease re-enter health entities. Methodology: Integrative review of the literature, where the DECS/MESH thesauri were implemented, search equations were used in the selected databases (Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, EBSCO host, Scopus, SAGEJournal) resulting in 3530 articles in Spanish and 13400 in English, of which 34 were selected by title and abstract. Subsequently, 22 articles were chosen that were discriminated through the analysis matrix. Results: The most frequent symptoms were identified as patients readmitted to health entities with advanced oncological disease: pain, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting and fatigue; in a lower percentage: low appetite, poor well-being, fever, diarrhea, constipation, insomnia, edema and convulsions. The most predominant psychological symptoms are depression and anxiety. Conclusion: The knowledge gap at the national level and the lack of updating at the international level are evident; this invites nursing professionals to investigate and publish their findings Key words: palliative care, symptoms, readmission, advanced oncological disease