Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy

2023年3月9日 — Palliative chemotherapy is chemotherapy that shrinks the cancer, improves distressing symptoms caused by cancer and helps you live longer.

2022年8月17日 — Palliative chemotherapy, unlike other forms of chemotherapy, refers to the use of chemotherapy to extend live or reduce symptoms, but is ...

2021年3月18日 — Palliative chemotherapy is used to help reduce cancer symptoms, improve the quality and in some cases, the length of life.

由 AI Neugut 著作 · 2017 · 被引用 39 次 — Although chemotherapy is commonly categorized as being either curative or palliative, these terms no longer fully reflect chemotherapy's intended uses.

由 E Akhlaghi 著作 · 2020 · 被引用 29 次 — However, chemotherapy is often offered as a palliative therapy for patients with advanced cancer nearing death. The purpose of this review was ...

Palliative treatment · chemotherapy · radiotherapy · hormone therapy · targeted cancer drugs · surgery · radiofrequency ablation, which uses heat to kill cancer cells ...

2023年6月13日 — Eventually, John chose to forego palliative chemotherapy, and instead focus on the quality of the end of his life. Louisa tells their # ...

由 Z Zhang 著作 · 2020 · 被引用 3 次 — Palliative chemotherapy during the final year of life differed significantly according to the caregiver type and patient age. Treatment with palliative ...