Condoning the tactics of advanced stage patient of cancer

Condoning the tactics of advanced stage patient of cancer
Through the global long-term and unremitting efforts of medical circle, the anticancer treatment can already let 50% of the cancer patients that has already had cured the result at present, U.S.A. reports the total cure rate of cancer is up to 62%. As to the cancer patient of later period, the function against cancer treatment can lengthen some patients' existence time, but issues of very late patient lengthen, survive while being difficult to disease. The cancer patient lengthens to survive to just extravagantly hope in latter stage of end. However, even so, because the life is priceless, " at all costs that have clinically, do the best to rescue " ,Seem to become the rule.


Even close to the terminal of the life, patients may be still accepting chemotherapy, or accept the surgery or radiotherapy with wound nature.

Not when because does not benefit and stop the anticancer treatment again in anticancer treatment, in order to let the cancer patient live better, live even more in later period the long palliative treatment tactics become the leading factor.

Palliative treatment is also called releiving treating. The basic conception of palliative treatment is to carry on positive and overall medical care to the cancer patient that the life is threatened; Admit the life is a series of development, the death is the terminal of the life; Advocate neither accelerate the death, nor delaying the death. Object to giving up treating, object to excessively treating, object to euthanasia in palliative treatment of cancer, object to any and does not respect the method of the life. The purpose of the palliative treatment of cancer is to improve the cancer patient's existence quality, help the cancer patient in the face of the difficulty with more calm mental state and stronger willpower, help patient live, until death, help relative, patient of cancer, in the face of reality actively, bear the blow on soul.

Symptom and complication that the main task of palliative treatment is caused by relieving cancer and treating, lighten the patient's body agony and psychological burden.

The palliative treatment of cancer is not only to the approaching one's end care treatment of the cancer patient of latter stage of end. The palliative treatment of cancer should be carried throughout treatment of cancer. According to the progress of cancer pathological change, the palliative treatment of cancer is roughly divided into three stages,

At first stage, the anticancer treatment is combined with palliative treatment. It is a cancer patient who can or may effect a radical cure to treat the target. The palliative treatment at this stage mainly relieves cancer and symptom against due to cancer treatment, support to treat to the ill, ensure the life quality of period of patient's treatment.

The second stage, when may no longer benefit in anticancer treatment, should take palliative treatment as the core. It is a cancer patient of later period not effecting a radical cure to treat the target. The main task of its palliative treatment is to relieve symptom and lighten the agony, the quality of making the life better.

At third stage, only the cancer patient offers service of treating and dying a natural death in approaching one's end care from several weeks to end latter stage of a few days in order to be expected to survive for time.

In a word, no matter how possibility that cancer cures is, rational palliative treatment can offer simple and convenient and economic medical care to patient and relative, improve their life quality. In the medical treatment of the cancer patient of later period makes policy, the antitumor treatment is combined with palliative treatment, insist on individual's complex treatment, let the patient in later period of cancer not only lives longer, and live better.


Cancer Later period Patient Condone Tactics
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