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Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success
Palliative care offers children who have life-limiting and life-threatening oncologic illnesses and their families improved quality of life. In some instances, impeccable symptom control can lead to improved survival. Cultural and financial barriers to palliative care in oncology patients occur in a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8111031 |
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author | Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna Rivas, Silvia Paz, Gabriela Bustamante, Marisol Castro, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Hazel Ah Chu, Maria Sabina Gassant, Pascale Yola Larin Lovo, Rolando Gamboa, Yessika Torres Núñez, Marleni García Quintero, Ximena Okhuysen-Cawley, Regina |
author_facet | Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna Rivas, Silvia Paz, Gabriela Bustamante, Marisol Castro, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Hazel Ah Chu, Maria Sabina Gassant, Pascale Yola Larin Lovo, Rolando Gamboa, Yessika Torres Núñez, Marleni García Quintero, Ximena Okhuysen-Cawley, Regina |
author_sort | Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna |
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description | Palliative care offers children who have life-limiting and life-threatening oncologic illnesses and their families improved quality of life. In some instances, impeccable symptom control can lead to improved survival. Cultural and financial barriers to palliative care in oncology patients occur in all countries, and those located in Central America are no exception. In this article, we summarize how the programs participating in the Asociación de Hemato-Oncólogos Pediatras de Centro America (AHOPCA) have developed dedicated oncology palliative care programs. The experience in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic and Haiti is detailed, with a focus on history, the barriers that have impeded progress, and achievements. Future directions, which, of course, may be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, are described as well. |
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spelling | pubmed-86248152021-11-27 Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna Rivas, Silvia Paz, Gabriela Bustamante, Marisol Castro, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Hazel Ah Chu, Maria Sabina Gassant, Pascale Yola Larin Lovo, Rolando Gamboa, Yessika Torres Núñez, Marleni García Quintero, Ximena Okhuysen-Cawley, Regina Children (Basel) Review Palliative care offers children who have life-limiting and life-threatening oncologic illnesses and their families improved quality of life. In some instances, impeccable symptom control can lead to improved survival. Cultural and financial barriers to palliative care in oncology patients occur in all countries, and those located in Central America are no exception. In this article, we summarize how the programs participating in the Asociación de Hemato-Oncólogos Pediatras de Centro America (AHOPCA) have developed dedicated oncology palliative care programs. The experience in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic and Haiti is detailed, with a focus on history, the barriers that have impeded progress, and achievements. Future directions, which, of course, may be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, are described as well. MDPI 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8624815/ /pubmed/34828744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8111031 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna Rivas, Silvia Paz, Gabriela Bustamante, Marisol Castro, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Hazel Ah Chu, Maria Sabina Gassant, Pascale Yola Larin Lovo, Rolando Gamboa, Yessika Torres Núñez, Marleni García Quintero, Ximena Okhuysen-Cawley, Regina Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title | Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title_full | Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title_fullStr | Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title_full_unstemmed | Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title_short | Pediatric Oncology Palliative Care Programs in Central America: Pathways to Success |
title_sort | pediatric oncology palliative care programs in central america: pathways to success |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8111031 |
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