The End-of-Life Phase of High-Grade Glioma Patients: Dying With Dignity?

January 18, 2013, from MedWorm: Brain Tumor

Conclusions. Physicians caring for HGG patients in the EOL phase should timely focus on explaining possible treatment options, because patients experience communication deficits toward death. Physicians should strive to allow patients to die at their preferred place and avoid transitions during the last month of life. PMID: 23335620 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The Oncologist)

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