The Need to Prioritize and Re-prioritize Palliative Care Options: Smoking Cessation as a Case-in-Point
| Autor: | Anna Schwecke, Elizabeth J. Cathcart-Rake, Aminah Jatoi, Erin Deering, Konstantinos Leventakos, Anna C. Sanh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care medicine.medical_treatment Clinical Decision-Making 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neoplasms medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) In patient Intensive care medicine Neoplasm Staging business.industry Health Priorities Palliative Care Cancer Disease Management medicine.disease 030104 developmental biology Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Smoking cessation Smoking Cessation Non small cell business |
| Zdroj: | Current treatment options in oncology. 20(4) |
| ISSN: | 1534-6277 |
| Popis: | Palliative care in cancer patients requires a continuous reprioritization of effort. This review describes the need for this reprioritization and uses smoking cessation as a case-in-point. The treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer has changed dramatically in the past few years. Interestingly, patients who had previously smoked now have an improved prognosis—for a variety of reasons. This review discusses this last observation in detail and raises the question of how forcefully we should advise smoking cessation in patients with incurable metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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