TY  - BOOK
ED  - World Health Organization.
TI  - Palliative cancer care: policy statement based on the recommendations of a WHO consultation, Leeds, 10-11 February 1987
SN  - 9289010592
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Copenhagen
PB  - WHO Regional Office for Europe
KW  - Neoplasms
KW  - therapy
KW  - Palliative care
N1  - DC.EURO
N2  - A policy statement intended to focus attention on the crucial need for palliative care in cancer patients. Information is specific to cancer problems and methods of management prevailing in Europe. Addressed to health authorities and the medical and nursing professions, the report issues guidance on what needs to be done to assure that patients with advanced cancer benefit from available methods for the management of pain and other symptoms. Emphasis is placed on the changes in thinking, services, and resources needed to help cancer patients achieve their maximum physical, emotional, spiritual, vocational, and social potential. Details range from a list of common symptoms and sources of discomfort in patients, through 14 essential elements of good symptom control, to advice on the organization of health services for care of the dying in a hospital, in the community, and in hospices and palliative care units
ER  -