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Palliative care has been defined in many somewhat diverging ways. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a definition, according to which palliative care is “the active, total care of a person whose condition is not responsive to curative treatment” (WHO 1990). This definition seems very concise and useful, stressing that such care should not be restricted to patients with malignant disease and that terminal care is only one aspect of palliative care, albeit a very important one. The concept embraces optimal symptom control and quality of life as well as appropriate rehabilitation.
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These 60 patients came from a complete series of 481 patients seen in a neuro-oncologic consultation for cancer pain, i.e., the incidence of patients eligible for continuous subcutaneous administration was only 12%, which is much lower than reported by Bloor et al. (1994) above. The rest of the patients could be managed by adjustment of oral opioids and adjuvant analgesic doses.
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Neymark, N. (1998). Palliative Care. In: Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72123-6_14
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