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Improving palliative care : we can take better care of people with cancer /
As a society, we have made amazing gains in being able to detect and treat cancer. Even so, about half the people who are told by their doctors that they have cancer will die within a few years. This means that every year about one million people find out that they have cancer and are treated, and a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
[2003]
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| Colección: | Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | As a society, we have made amazing gains in being able to detect and treat cancer. Even so, about half the people who are told by their doctors that they have cancer will die within a few years. This means that every year about one million people find out that they have cancer and are treated, and about one-half million people die of cancer nationwide. So far, most cancer research and treatment has focused on trying to cure cancer. There hasn't been much attention paid to other important issues, such as pain control and taking care of other troubling symptoms. Now more and more people are aware that there are cancer care needs beyond just trying to cure it. Attention is now being paid to helping people with cancer cope better with the problems that may arise when people are being treated or as they approach death. |
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| Notas: | Title from PDF cover. Based on Improving palliative care for cancer / Kathleen M. Foley and Hellen Gelband, editors; National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. ©2001. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 PDF file (20 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9780309526340 0309526345 0309089840 9780309089845 1280179538 9781280179532 9786610179534 6610179530 9780309167055 0309167051 |