Beyond Definitive Treatment

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Abstract
Many patients “cured” of cancer are left disfigured and disabled. It is time to improve the quality of their survival. Cancer patients as a group are wrongly considered to have no rehabilitation potential and hence are denied the all-out restorative efforts accorded persons with other chronic diseases. Ideally, rehabilitation of the cancer patient should begin as soon as definitive treatment is determined and before physical deformity occurs. The patient should be encouraged to return to society and make maximum use of his residual capacities.

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