Tag: Palliative care
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Health Matters: Compassionate Care to Help Improve Quality of Life
By Ramy Sedhom, MD When a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness or advanced disease, improving their quality of life is an important part of their care. Palliative care and hospice care are two types of care that support patients and their caregivers struggling with the difficulties of disease or disease-directed treatments. However, while…
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HEALTH MATTERS 4/29: Reduce Burden of Cancer with Palliative Care
By Ramy Sedhom, MD It is not uncommon for patients who have received a cancer diagnosis, or for those undergoing cancer treatment, to experience fatigue, pain and discomfort, nausea, vomiting and stress or anxiety. Fortunately, patients can find relief from these symptoms through palliative care. For patients with cancer, palliative care is meant to prevent…