title: Palliative and end-of-life care for patients with ovarian cancer.
abstract: Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and their families through the prevention and treatment of distressing symptoms while addressing the psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of patient care. Emerging paradigms of delivery promote early involvement in the disease trajectory and specialty approaches to care. Interdisciplinary assessment and shared decision making are important components. Throughout the disease course, aggressive symptom management can improve patients' quality of life and their ability to tolerate and continue treatment. End-of-life care focuses on comfort, control, meaning, and support that become particularly intense when death is imminent.
authors.affiliation: Summa Health System, Palliative Care and Hospice Services, Akron, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Steven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Radwany
authors.forename: Vivian E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: von Gruenigen
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D001201:Ascites / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D001601:Bereavement; D003142:Communication; D003248:Constipation / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003657:Decision Making; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D052016:Mucositis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009325:Nausea / Q000517:prevention & control; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D014839:Vomiting / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents