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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, rather than fatal injury.
The physical and mental impairments that are caused by cancer may also cause significant problems for the caregiver. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 14 ] [ 30 ] The patients' ability to function on their own and to independently take care of themselves, termed functional status , has a strong effect on caregivers.
Physical activity before cancer diagnosis is associated with a decreased risk of cancer progression and death, a new study, which focused mostly on breast and prostate cancer patients, found.
Geriatric oncology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the elderly, usually defined as aged 65 and older. This fairly young but increasingly important subspecialty incorporates the special needs of the elderly into the treatment of cancer.
An elderly Oklahoma man with cancer was severely injured when a police officer forcefully shoved him onto the ground while investigating a traffic stop. Lich Vu, 70, ...
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of 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 intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Pain is experienced by 53 percent of all people diagnosed with malignant cancer, 59 percent of people receiving anticancer treatment, 64 percent of people with metastatic or advanced-stage disease, and 33 percent of people after completion of curative treatment. [53] Evidence for prevalence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer is scarce.
A man who was diagnosed with terminal cancer recently fulfilled his longtime dream and defied the odds by completing the VinFast Ironman World Championship, one of the most challenging sporting ...