The expectations of metastatic cancer patients regarding palliative chemotherapy: A Brazilian-German qualitative study.
Cynthia Pereira de AraújoAna Cláudia Mesquita GarciaMunir Murad JúniorPublished in: Palliative & supportive care (2023)
Regardless of cultural aspects, patients with metastatic cancer on palliative chemotherapy tend to believe in the healing potential of treatments. Dividing expectations only into curable or incurable is insufficient, as even patients who have acknowledged the incurability of their disease expect to live, as long as they remain under treatment as if the disease did not exist.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- palliative care
- squamous cell carcinoma
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- locally advanced
- chronic kidney disease
- small cell lung cancer
- prognostic factors
- papillary thyroid
- risk assessment
- radiation therapy
- squamous cell
- patient reported outcomes
- human health
- rectal cancer
- smoking cessation