Curative, Life-Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side‐effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions.

publication date

  • May 26, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Palliative Care

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5553954

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85027373287

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041

PubMed ID

  • 28550031

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 22

issue

  • 8