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A 14 page overview of the many considerations of palliative care. Emphasizing palliative care for
terminal breast cancer patients, this paper points out that our focus on pharmacological and clinically-based interventions are often myopic, that we need to consider alternative treatment regimes on a case-by-case basis. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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14 pages (~225 words per page)
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Terminally ill patients present a number of concerns in regard to the appropriate path for end of life care. Pain relief is of particular concern. The fact that
pain relief can occur both through pharmacological intervention and non-pharmacological intervention and in both clinical and non-clinical settings, however, is one that is only recently coming into common acceptance.
The treatment of terminally ill breast cancer patients, for example, has typically been restricted to major metropolitan treatment centers where intense regimes of pharmacological intervention are emphasized almost exclusively (McGrath,
2001, p. 36). This means that patients must not only suffer the ravages of their disease but also the emotional impact of being forced to leave their homes and
family to travel to treatment centers (McGrath, 2001, p. 36). In fact, a more multidisciplinary approach may be more appropriate in this type of care.
In a study assessing the developments that occur when patients with hematological malignancies that live in the rural and remote areas of Queensland, Australia return
home after relocating to the metropolitan centers for treatment McGrath 2001, p. 36) emphasizes that these patients and their families have:
"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of the illness".
In Australia tertiary health care centers are typically located on the coast and patients from rural inland areas must not
only traverse significant geographic distances but often significant cultural distances just to access care (McGrath, 2001, p. 36). Unfortunately the scenario that is in place in Australia regarding access
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