Symptomatic management of the older person with cancer.
The older person with cancer is often unable to participate in treatment regimens that a younger person might tolerate. We review the complex reasons why this may be so as well as provide to the reader a brief review of the major symptoms that can cause suffering and treatment regimens that can improve the patient's sense of well being. Palliative care provides the older person with advanced cancer the opportunity to live his or her life to the fullest during that period of life called dying.
Sheehan
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Division of Nursing, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124-4398, USA.
Forman
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D000368:Aged; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*