Top 10 Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Radiation Oncology.
J Palliat Med
; 21(3): 383-388, 2018 03.
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| ID: mdl-29431573
ABSTRACT
As palliative care (PC) moves upstream in the course of advanced illness, it is critical that PC providers have a broad understanding of curative and palliative treatments for serious diseases. Possessing a working knowledge of radiation therapy (RT), one of the three pillars of cancer care, is crucial to PC providers given RT's role in both the curative and palliative settings. This article provides PC providers with a primer on the vocabulary of RT; the team of people involved in the planning of RT; and common indications, benefits, and side effects of treatment.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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Radiation Oncology
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Neoplasms
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Palliat Med
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article