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Improving Palliative Care for Cancer

Kathleen M. Foley and Hellen Gelband - Personal Name;

It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an individual, personal level has, by and large, not guided policy at the level of institutions in this country. There is no argument that palliative care should be integrated into cancer care from diagnosis to death. But significant barriers—attitudinal, behavioral, economic, educational, and legal—still limit access to care for a large proportion of those dying from cancer, and in spite of tremendous scientific opportunities for medical progress against all the major symptoms associated with cancer and cancer death, public research institutions have not responded. In accepting a single-minded focus on research toward cure, we have inadvertently devalued the critical need to care for and support patients with advanced disease, and their families.

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Publisher: : ., 2001
Collation: 1-79
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0-309-51118-6
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Subject(s): Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
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