Abstract
Lung cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, lung cancer is also the leading cause of cancer mortality. Therefore, faced with a diagnosis of lung cancer, the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome is considerably high, as occurred with the patient in this study. Thus, this case report is about the importance of the institution of palliative care in patients in the presence of malignant neoplasms, of incurable character, so that they have quality of life, that they can understand and accept their death process and that, at the moment of in the course of the death, the same occurs in a dignified, painless and comfortable way possible within the limitations.
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