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dc.contributor.authorWHO Expert Committee on Cancer Pain Relief and Active Supportive Careen
dc.contributor.authorWorld Health Organizationen
dc.coverage.spatialGeneva
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-16T14:05:44Z
dc.date.available2012-06-16T14:05:44Z
dc.date.created1990en
dc.date.issued1990en
dc.identifier.isbn924120804X
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.who.int/handle/10665/39524
dc.descriptiontur published by: Istanbul : Department of Algology, Medical Faculty, Istanbul Universityen
dc.description75 p.en
dc.description.abstractConsiders what can and should be done to comfort patients suffering from the distressing symptoms of advanced cancer. Prepared by nine renowned experts in oncology, neurology, pain management and nursing care, the book draws together the evidence and arguments needed to define clear lines of action, whether on the part of the medical and nursing professions or in the form of national legislation. Throughout, arguments for palliative care take their force from the magnitude of unrelieved suffering currently borne by the majority of terminally ill patients. Although methods for the relief of pain are emphasized, other physical, psychological, and spiritual needs for comfort are also included in the reports comprehensive recommendations. The concept of palliative care is explained in terms of its concern with quality of life and comfort before death, emphasis on the family as the unit of care, dependence on teamwork, and relationship to curative interventions. Subsequent sections concentrate on measures for the relief of pain and other physical symptoms, the psychosocial needs of the patient and family, and the need for spiritual comfort. A section devoted to ethics provides several important statements concerning the legal and ethical distinction between killing the pain and killing the patient, and the need to recognize the limits of medicineen
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dc.publisherWorld Health Organization
dc.publisherWorld Health Organization
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Health Organization technical report series ; no. 804en
dc.subject.meshNeoplasmsen
dc.subject.meshPainen
dc.subject.meshPalliative Careen
dc.subject.otherCancer and its Controlen
dc.titleCancer pain relief and palliative care : report of a WHO expert committee [‎meeting held in Geneva from 3 to 10 July 1989]‎en
dc.title.alternativeTraitement de la douleur cancéreuse et soins palliatifs : rapport d' un Comité d' experts de l' OMSen
dc.title.alternativeAlivio del dolor y tratamiento paliativo en el cáncer: informe de un Comité de Expertos de la OMSen
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dc.subject.meshqualifierdrug therapyen
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