title: Terminal events in women dying of advanced breast cancer: improving the care for terminal breast cancer patients in Africa.
abstract: We studied the terminal events preceding death in all patients dying in hospital over a period of 10 years. Hepatomegaly, massive ascites, cachexia, jaundice, massive pleural effusion and haemoptysis were the most frequent terminal events. The predominance of visceral-related terminal events is unexplained but may be related to site-specific metastasis and premorbid organ pathology.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. i.gukas@uea.ac.uk
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Gukas
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mbah