Timing of palliative care referral and aggressive cancer care toward the end-of-life in pancreatic cancer: a retrospective, single-center observational study

BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer is noted for its late presentation at diagnosis, limited prognosis and physical and psychosocial symptom burden. This study examined associations between timing of palliative care referral (PCR) and aggressive cancer care received by pancreatic cancer patients in the la...

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Autores principales: Michael, Natasha, Beale, Greta, O’Callaghan, Clare, Melia, Adelaide, DeSilva, William, Costa, Daniel, Kissane, David, Shapiro, Jeremy, Hiscock, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30691417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-019-0399-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30691417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-019-0399-4

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