Palliative care in gynecological cancer
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Department of Medicine, Division of Obstetrics and GynecologyDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2015-10-01Keywords
Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy ComplicationsNeoplasms
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Oncology
Palliative Care
Women's Health
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According to the WHO definition, “Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and treatment of other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual” [1]. In addition, “Palliative care is required from early in the disease course, can be delivered alongside potentially curative treatment, and continues to include end-of-life or terminal care” [2].Source
Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2015 Oct;131 Suppl 2:S167-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.06.016. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.06.016Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/39801PubMed ID
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© 2015 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. on behalf of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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