Care of the adult cancer patient at the end of life: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines ☆

ESMO Open

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G.B. Crawford¹  T. Dzierżanowski³  K. Hauser⁴  P. Larkin⁵  A.I. Luque-Blanco⁶  I. Murphy⁷  C.M. Puchalski⁸  C.I. Ripamonti⁹ 

[1] Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide;Northern Adelaide Local Health Network;Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, Medical University of Warsaw;Palliative and Supportive Care Department Cabrini Health;Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne;Palliative Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu;Marymount University Hospital and Hospice;Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences;Oncology-Supportive Care in Cancer Unit, Department Onco-Haematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Milano

关键词: end of life;    cancer patient;    total care;    death and dying;    palliative care;    clinical practice guideline;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100225

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: BMJ Publishing Group

【 摘 要 】

In palliative care (PC), the term ‘end of life’ (EoL) iscommonly used but inconsistently defined.1 This EuropeanSociety for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical PracticeGuideline (CPG) refers to EoL as care for people withadvanced disease once they have reached a point of rapidphysical decline, typically the last few weeks or monthsbefore an inevitable death as a natural result of a disease.This guideline will only consider the last weeks and days oflife for the adult patient with advanced cancer.

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