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Palliative Care for People with Haematological Cancers

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Palliative care is an essential component of cancer services. It is cheap and effective and can be provided across settings and teams. No patient should feel “abandoned” at the end of life, and control of distressing pain, symptoms and other concerns of patients and families should be goals of care. The successful delivery of palliative care requires an enabling policy environment, adequate access to drugs and education for all healthcare professionals to deliver basic generalist palliative care. Underpinning this must be research to ensure that the models of care are appropriate to health system contexts and cultural preferences.

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  1. Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK

    Richard Harding

  2. African Palliative Care Association, Kampala, Uganda

    Emmanuelle Luyirika

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  1. Medical Oncology, Claude-Bernard-Lyon1 University, Lyon, France

    Jean-Pierre Droz

  2. Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana

    Bernard Carme

  3. Service de dermatologie, Centre hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana

    Pierre Couppié

  4. Guyane, INSERM CIC 1424, Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana

    Mathieu Nacher

  5. Service d’hémato-oncologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

    Catherine Thiéblemont

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Harding, R., Luyirika, E. (2015). Palliative Care for People with Haematological Cancers. In: Droz, JP., Carme, B., Couppié, P., Nacher, M., Thiéblemont, C. (eds) Tropical Hemato-Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_57

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