Altretamine in advanced pretreated epithelial ovarian carcinoma patients: Experience from a center in north India

Talwar, Vineet; Goel, Varun; Raina, Shubhra; Patnaik, Nivedita; Doval, Dinesh Chandra

doi:10.1016/j.cmrp.2016.04.003

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“…It works as palliation for those with recurrent disease or as a maintenance drug to enhance and increase progression-free survival for these patients. Most benefit of altretamine is the decrease of physical and psychological discomfort came with the parenteral therapies and its oral use decreases the need for hospitalization [53,54].…”

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Palliative Care Therapies

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2023

Supportive and Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Oncology

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Palliative care considered as a support care for anyone living with a complex disease such as cancer, it has a great role in decreasing the severity of illness and slowness loss of functions by symptoms control and management in different stages of cancer. Palliative care is a specialized care area bounded to deliver health care facilities to patients who suffer from direct, indirect symptoms, unmet needs, for prevention and relief suffering from psychological issues mainly emotional issues (depression, anxiety, and delirium) and physiological issues like (nausea, vomiting, fatigue, xerostomia, headache, osteoradionecrosis, hemoptysis, dyspnea, taste loss, and pain). So its goal is to prolong their survival with the best possible quality of life for both the patients and their families.

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confidence: 99%