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Palliative Care of Cancer Patient: A Successful Charitable Experience

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Cancer is worldwide spreading disease; it is generally and roughly estimated as 7.2 to 7.5 million people die from cancer each year. Also, more than 70% of all cancer deaths occur in developing countries, where resources available for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer are limited or nonexistent. Furthermore, more than 40% of all cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early, treated, and cured.      Cancer and its treatment can cause symptoms and side effects, including physical, emotional, social, and financial. Therefore, treating these effects with even late-stage cancer, the suffering of patients can be relieved with a good care called palliative care or supportive care.
 
     According to the World Health Organization, 2019 palliative care is described as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual".

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10.21608/ejnhs.2020.115927

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Nadia

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Seif

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Community Health Nursing, MTI University

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Second Issue

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17540

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2020-09-01

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2020-06-28

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2020-09-01

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5

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11

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2682-2563

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2682-2571

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Egyptian Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Palliative Care of Cancer Patient: A Successful Charitable Experience

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22 Jan 2023