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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Advanced cancer palliative care and quality of life [Keywords:] tumor; palliative therapy; the quality of life At present, the tumor incidence was significantly higher in all over the world trend. The World Health Organization (WHO) a survey of 1995 cancer patients around the world newly issued 10 million people who died from cancer, the number of 6.6 million, is one of the residents of the common causes of death [1]. As the complexity of tumor diagnosis and the current restrictions on the level of diagnosis, in many countries, especially developing countries, quite a lot of patients are diagnosed when the middle and late. Patients with advanced cancer should be further palliative therapy to improve their quality of life. However, as people are the traditional concepts of cancer and death, prejudice, combined with the existing health care system and the limited conditions, resulting in a large number of patients with advanced cancer treatment is not reasonable and proper placement, while the suffering caused by cancer of the significant physical and mental suffering, economic loss, family rocked, but also increased the burden on society and the workplace. In 2006 the 4th China Oncology The theme is ‘standard cancer treatment, improve the quality of life’. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the European Society of Clinical Oncology in 2006, jointly released the ‘improvement of the quality of cancer treatment in the consensus statement’, stressed its concern about cancer survivors and cancer palliative care issues. The basic idea embodied in these are: respect for cancer patients, scientific decision-making anti-cancer treatment, to ensure the quality of cancer treatment. WHO tumor workers demands, has been in the past tumor prevention, early diagnosis and early treatment of the three key improvements in the cancer prevention, early diagnosis, comprehensive treatment and palliative treatment of four key and that the most co