Consequences of cancer treatment: a new challenge for supportive and palliative care

Maher, Jane

doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000247

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“…There are 2 million people living in the UK after a cancer diagnosis. This figure is projected to rise to 4 million by 2030 8. With cancer survivorship, there comes an onus on medical professionals across disciplines to address the impact of both cancer and its treatment on patients’ physical, psychological and social functioning.…”

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Prophylactic cranial irradiation: 5 years on

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Lowney

Murphy

et al. 2013

BMJ Support Palliat Care

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With advances in cancer management, patients are living with the long-term sequelae of both cancer and its treatment. This era of cancer survivorship poses unique challenges to the interdisciplinary cancer team in terms of management and prevention of treatment-related toxicities. This paper describes the case of a 55-year-old patient with neurocognitive disturbance as a result of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI). Five years after a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer, she is now an inpatient at a specialist palliative care unit. The current evidence for PCI and for potentially modifiable risk factors for neurocognitive disturbance as a consequence of PCI is explored.

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confidence: 99%