Palliative care
Palliative care, as defined by the World Health Organization, is an approach that improves quality of life for patients — adults and children — and
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their families facing a life-threatening illness. It prevents and relieves suffering through early identification, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychological or spiritual problems. It affirms life, treats dying as a normal process, and neither hastens nor postpones death. It can begin early in an illness, alongside treatments such as chemotherapy, and offers support to both patients and families, including bereavement care.
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