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2023
Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life of people living with serious illness and their family carers. However despite policy, clinical, and research evidence underpinning the importance of a family approach to care, as well as justification for early palliative care integration, systemic inadequacies have impeded the quality of family
Prizer, Lindsay, Hudson, Peter
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Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life of people living with serious illness and their family carers. However despite policy, clinical, and research evidence underpinning the importance of a family approach to care, as well as justification for early palliative care integration, systemic inadequacies have impeded the quality of family
Prizer, Lindsay, Hudson, Peter
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Current Opinion in ONCOLOGY, 1990
For cancer patients, quality of life and satisfaction with care are not only related to patient treatment facilities, but also to ambulatory care. Therefore, the goal of ambulatory care should be to prevent predictable morbidities, to eliminate residual morbidities when possible, to control symptoms, and to lessen discomfort when cure is not likely ...
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For cancer patients, quality of life and satisfaction with care are not only related to patient treatment facilities, but also to ambulatory care. Therefore, the goal of ambulatory care should be to prevent predictable morbidities, to eliminate residual morbidities when possible, to control symptoms, and to lessen discomfort when cure is not likely ...
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Supportive care in neurooncology
Current Opinion in Oncology, 2010Malignant brain tumors have a very poor prognosis and the natural history of disease is very short, usually less than 1 year. Brain tumor patients often present peculiar symptoms of disease that require appropriate supportive treatment, namely, peritumoral brain edema, venous thromboembolism, seizures and opportunistic infections.
Pace A, Metro G, Fabi A
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2016
This chapter takes its point of departure in psychosocial aspects of supportive care in adolescent and young adult cancer care. The purpose is to describe some of the challenges that these young people face following a cancer diagnosis and guide healthcare professionals in how to provide care that improves the quality of life.
Olsen, Pia Riis, Lorenzo, Rosalia
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This chapter takes its point of departure in psychosocial aspects of supportive care in adolescent and young adult cancer care. The purpose is to describe some of the challenges that these young people face following a cancer diagnosis and guide healthcare professionals in how to provide care that improves the quality of life.
Olsen, Pia Riis, Lorenzo, Rosalia
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Psychostimulants in supportive care
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2000Psychostimulant medications have been used clinically and investigated in psychiatric populations, the medically ill, cancer patients and healthy people. This article discusses the pharmacology of dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate, pemoline (and other psychostimulants such as caffeine and ephedrine), their use in general medicine and cancer care, side
J, Homsi, D, Walsh, K A, Nelson
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Biosimilars in supportive care
Current Opinion in Oncology, 2020Purpose of review This review covers recent publications relating to the use of biosimilar medicines in the supportive care of cancer patients, and broader publications focussed on the benefits and challenges of implementing biosimilars into clinical practice.
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Supportive care in neurooncology
Revue Neurologique, 2011The quality of life of patients treated for brain tumor is, in all cases, deeply altered by the tumor and the treatments. Optimizing the symptomatic management is a key objective for all care givers. We present in this paper a very pragmatic focus concerning the management of intracranial hypertension (and/or neurological deficits), venous ...
L, Taillandier +7 more
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Palliative and Supportive Care
2009Supportive and palliative care services are integral to the provision of comprehensive cancer care (and no cancer service should call itself ‘comprehensive’ without a comprehensive supportive and palliative care team). All people diagnosed with cancer should have access to supportive care and the one in two people who will have their lives shortened as
Mitchell, Geoffrey, Currow, David C.
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Current Problems in Cancer, 1990
Pain management, nutritional support, and psychosocial support are fundamental services that enhance patients' ability to cope with their cancer and its therapy. The common goal of symptom prevention mandates that each of these supportive services be provided to all patients throughout their cancer experience.
M H, Levy +3 more
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Pain management, nutritional support, and psychosocial support are fundamental services that enhance patients' ability to cope with their cancer and its therapy. The common goal of symptom prevention mandates that each of these supportive services be provided to all patients throughout their cancer experience.
M H, Levy +3 more
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Supportive and Palliative Care
2021The definition of palliative and supportive care is often overwhelming and may be confused in common clinical practice. Supportive care is the multiprofessional attention to the individual’s overall physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural needs and should be available at all stages of the illness.
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