Some basic guidelines in the use of chemotherapy for patients with incurable malignancy.

Kearsley, J H · Palliat Med · 1994

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Abstract

The increasing use of cytotoxic chemotherapy for patients with incurable malignancy has raised a number of practical and ethical dilemmas for health care workers in the fields of oncology and palliative medicine. This paper addresses some of these issues and attempts to suggest basic principles which may contribute to the successful use of palliative chemotherapy.

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