Palliative care for patients with advanced cancer.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Palliative care for patients with advanced cancer [Keywords:] advanced cancer, palliative care With the rapid development of medical technology, the world continues to increase cancer detection rate of .21 when the world number of deaths from cancer each year more than 500 million [1]. The number of cancer incidence in China each year about 200 million now to 300 the number of patients million or more, an average of every 90 households in the cancer patients had a [2]. Cancer has become China’s working age population, the first cause of disability and death. cancer so that patients and their families in physical, psychological, and social generate a series, which seriously affect their quality of life. on palliative care for patients with advanced cancer (palliative care), optimize the quality end of life, to meet the needs of themselves and their families has become a very important nursing content. 1 definition and connotation of palliative care 2002 WHO to palliative care is defined as: palliative care is a supportive care approach, that is, through early identification, positive evaluation, control and treatment of pain and other distressing symptoms, including physical, psychological, social and religious problems, to prevent and mitigate physical and mental suffering, thus changing the life-threatening disease quality of life of patients and their relatives [3]. Palliative care emphasizes four full-service, that is holistic, family, full, team. Through the team approach to provide comprehensive care to patients, family members as care unit patients do not advocate the implementation may add to the suffering and senseless or excessive treatment treatment, emphasis on reducing all kinds of pain, the patient calm, Enron, died with dignity, that optimize the quality end of life. 2, the needs of patients with advanced cancer 2.1 Most of the physiological needs of patients with advanced cancer through surgery, chemoth