RT Book, Section
A1 Badgwell, Brian
A2 Morita, Shane Y.
A2 Balch, Charles M.
A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne
A2 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A2 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145765008
T1 Principles of Palliative Care for Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793315
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145765008
RD 2024/04/20
AB Palliative  care  is  an  approach  to  care  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  assessment  and  treatment  of  pain  and  other  problems—physical,  psychosocial,  and  spiritual.1  As  with  many  health  care  disciplines,  there  are  both  medical  and  surgical  components  to  palliative  care.  Palliative  medical  care  employs  expertise  on  the  assessment  and  management  of  problems  including  pain,  cachexia,  delirium,  fatigue,  dyspnea,  and  end-of-life  issues.  Although  palliative  care  has  long  been  demonstrated  to  improve  symptom  control  and  quality  of  life,  recent  evidence  suggests  it  may  also  be  associated  with  longer  survival.2,3  Therefore,  the  American  Society  of  Clinical  Oncology  has  recently  issued  a  statement  suggesting  that  palliative  care  should  be  considered  early  in  patients  with  metastatic  disease  and/or  high  symptom  burden.4  Palliative  surgery  is  defined  as  surgery  for  which  the  major  intent  is  alleviation  of  symptoms  and  improving  patient's  quality  of  life.5