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Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases than for injury. In popular use, it indicates a ...
Cachexia (/ kəˈkɛksiə / [1]) is a complex syndrome associated with an underlying illness, causing ongoing muscle loss that is not entirely reversed with nutritional supplementation. A range of diseases can cause cachexia, most commonly cancer, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, and AIDS.
Palliative care. Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [ 1 ] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [ 1 ] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It has been reported by physicians ...
Glioblastoma, previously known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is the most aggressive and most common type of cancer that originates in the brain, and has a very poor prognosis for survival. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] Initial signs and symptoms of glioblastoma are nonspecific. [ 1 ] They may include headaches, personality changes, nausea, and symptoms ...
Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced / luːˈkiːmiːə / [ 1 ]loo-KEE-mee-ə) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells. [ 9 ] These blood cells are not fully developed and are called blasts or leukemia cells. [ 2 ]
Tanner Wright says his terminal cancer diagnosis 'doesn't mean life is over. It just means you have to rearrange things.' Tanner and Shay Wright were an otherwise typical newly married couple when ...
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distressof a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous ...