Some basic guidelines in the use of chemotherapy for patients with incurable malignancy
Open Access
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Palliative Medicine
- Vol. 8 (1) , 11-17
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026921639400800103
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.Keywords
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