[Palliative care to adolescents with cancer: a literature review].
Providing care to adolescents with cancer in the process of death and dying has been a great challenge for health professionals. This challenge is marked by a high emotional burden and specificities of this stage of human development. The purpose of the present study was to review the scientific literature regarding palliative care to adolescents with cancer. This study is a literature review, which data collection was performed using Lilacs, Medline, and PsycInfo, in addition to non-systematic databases. An analysis of the manuscripts revealed three themes: adolescence and its different definitions; the particularities of adolescents with cancer; and palliative care to adolescents with cancer. The study showed there is a scarcity of evidenced-based research defining the panorama of symptoms affecting the quality of life during palliative care and an absence of specific programs in the stage of fast changes that, alone, demand for adaptive efforts.
Remedi
Patrícia Pereira
PP
Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP.
Mello
Débora Faleiros de
DF
Menossi
Maria José
MJ
Lima
Regina Aparecida Garcia de
RA
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010371:Pediatric Nursing