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Chapter-106 Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Cancer

BOOK TITLE: Textbook of Orthopedics & Trauma (4 Volumes)

Author
1. Muckaden Mary Ann
2. Deodhar Jayita
3. Atreya Shrikant
ISBN
9789385891052
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/12869_107
Edition
3/e
Publishing Year
2016
Pages
4
Author Affiliations
1. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai (Grant -in-aid Institute, under Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India); Sukoon Nilaya, King George Memorial Home, Mumbai; Mumbai Children’s Palliative Care Project and Shanthi Avedna Sadan Hospice, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
3. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Chapter keywords
palliative care, soft tissue cancer, dyspnea, cachexia, nausea, EEMAA, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR

Abstract

This chapter discusses palliative care and quality of life in advanced bone and soft tissue cancer. Palliative care is treatment to relieve, rather than cure, symptoms caused by cancer. Palliative care can help people live more comfortably and is an urgent humanitarian need for people worldwide with cancer and other chronic fatal diseases. Palliative care is defined by WHO as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Symptoms of palliative care, psychological issues in palliative care, community-based palliative care are also discussed in this chapter.

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