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Providing Palliative Care for Patients With Lung Cancer

Authors :
Dee W. Ford
Brett C. Bade
Gerard A. Silvestri
Source :
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine. 24:105-111
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017.

Abstract

Palliative care (PC) focuses on improving the quality of life and minimizing suffering in patients with chronic, symptomatic, and life-threatening disease. Because of severe and progressive symptoms, coexisting lung disease, anxiety, and depression, lung cancer (LC) patients derive robust benefit fr

Details

ISSN :
10680640
Volume :
24
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5f207f8248e412875c08e824754ea966
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1097/cpm.0000000000000203