Surgery in patients with advanced malignancies: ethical dilemmas
| Autor: | Irene Christodoulou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:RC435-571 business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public health Scientific evidence Psychiatry and Mental health Surgical oncology Excellence lcsh:Psychiatry Forensic psychiatry Medicine Sensibility In patient business Intensive care medicine Psychiatry Geriatric psychiatry media_common |
| Zdroj: | Annals of General Psychiatry, Vol 5, Iss Suppl 1, p S253 (2006) |
| ISSN: | 1744-859X |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1744-859x-5-s1-s253 |
| Popis: | Results Evidence-based medicine and survival studies have made over-therapy less frequent than ever. However, patients with non-curable diseases are vulnerable to marketing of various Medical Centers of Excellence. Awareness of Surgical Societies is needed and the surgeon must be taught the sensibility to deal with these patients. The proper patient information and respect to personal autonomy are required. Moreover, variations in definition of palliative surgery as well as limited scientific evidence in rare oncological cases make surgeons perform operations even in final stage cancer cases. Detailed protocols may save patients from forms of "palliative surgery" that consist unnecessary ir precarious solutions. Discussion Both in clinical practice but also in education and research moral sensibility is required in order to promote public health and mainly in the field of surgical oncology. |
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