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Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care 2014

David Hui (Editor); Eduardo Bruera
$51.81
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 ISBN: 9780199329755
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 Category: Clinical & i

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Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care.