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- Palliative Care
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- Margaret I. Fitch, RN, PhD, and Leslee J. Thompson,
- RN, MScN
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- For some people with cancer, a cure will not be
- possible. The most appropriate route in such
- cases is treatment and care that are directed toward
- palliation.
- Palliative care is a form of comfort-giving care
- that fully recognizes that cure or long-term control
- is not possible. The primary concern of palliative
- care is quality of life. Palliative care is provided so
- that people who are dying can be helped to
- maintain the best possible level of physical,
- emotional, mental, spiritual, vocational and social
- life during their remaining time, no matter how much
- limitation may be imposed by their advancing disease.
- It is so important to understand that the phrase
-