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Palliative care in cancer: managing patients’ expectations

Advanced cancer patients commonly have misunderstandings about the intentions of treatment and their overall prognosis. Several studies have shown that large numbers of patients receiving palliative radiation or chemotherapy hold unrealistic hopes of their cancer being cured by such therapies, which...

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Autor principal: Ghandourh, Wsam A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27741380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.188