Principles and potential of palliative surgery in patients with advanced cancer.

摘要: Although the majority of patients with advanced cancer are unlikely to be cured, recurrent or metastatic disease does not have mean that a rapid painful death is imminent. Palliative surgery aims improve patients’ quality life without necessarily removing all tumor, as when malignancy there less emphasis on specific tumor therapy and more supportive care. should seen in this context — part overall patient management aimed at reduction symptoms prolongation useful curative intent. for follow sound principles surgical oncology. These involve preoperative, operative, postoperative care well particular complications. It must remembered might also nonmalignant problem such appendicitis can readily corrected, dictates careful, rapid, thorough assessment made allow early aggressive definitive undertaken. never assumed new clinical certainly due cancer. This bad medicine basis unnecessary suffering mortality.