Comfort Goals: Myths


Comfort Goals  
 

Myths
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  1. People with cancer die in agony because cancer pain can not be relieved.

  2. Unrelieved pain or other symptoms are the cause of most of the suffering at the end-of-life.

  3. People should not expect dying to be pain-free because therapies are only effective in reducing the pain, not eliminating it.

©2001 D.J. Wilkie & TNEEL Investigators