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The ageing global population increases the need for palliative care as an essential component of cancer programmes in all regions of the world.This article provides an overview of the meaning of palliative and end-of-life care, and summarises the evidence for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Having established the need and effectiveness of palliative care, we identify the deficit in communication...
Palliative surgery is defined as any invasive procedure with the major goal of relief of symptoms or to improve quality of life for patients with advanced illness. Palliative surgery is increasingly being recognized as important, in part, due to the significant frequency of inpatient palliative surgical consultations and palliative surgical procedures that surgeons are asked to perform. In addition,...
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