Abstract
Palliative sedation and oncological active treatment at the end of life; Is there any difference between the hospital and at home?
Highlights
The treatment of advanced stage cancer patients has seen extraordinary progress over the last years, and proof of this is the incorporation of new target-therapies [1]
Study population: Patients who died during admission in Medical Oncology Department admitted in conventional hospitalisation or by the Home Care Unit in the Valencian Institute of Oncology
We identified 343 patients who died in our center with advanced cancer in the study period
Summary
The treatment of advanced stage cancer patients has seen extraordinary progress over the last years, and proof of this is the incorporation of new target-therapies [1]. The patient requires a specific treatment for quality of life to be maintained in the final stage of life. This is the period of time when patients has an illness that is progressing and is going to be the cause of their death [4]. It is difficult to determine precisely when an advanced stage cancer patient is nearing the end of life. It is estimated that by the year 2020 there will be 15 million new cases of cancer and 10 million deaths [5]
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