“Everything Is Palliative Which Is Not Curative”: Perceptions and a New Understanding of Incurable Cancer
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
JANUARY 22, 2023
Hilde Buiting, PhD With Femke Botman, MSc, Patrick Brown, PhD, Vincent Ho, MSc, Gabe Sonke, MD, PhD Patients with incurable cancer often do not perceive themselves as “palliative”, a connotation they more commonly associate with impending death. Instead, these patients often prefer the word “chronic.” On the basis of nurses’ experiences we would like to initiate a new understanding of incurable cancer, partly due to new and better medication developments.
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