| The aggressive end stage management of these patients sharply contrasted with the palliation of terminal cancer patients. |
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| This study suggests that active involvement by caregivers committed to palliation can help alleviate the suffering of children dying from cancer. |
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| Antiperspirants can provide useful palliation in patients with moderate hyperhidrosis, but in severe cases they are ineffective. |
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| About half of these are treated for cure, and half for palliation. |
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| This is a huge priority because human resources are the foundation for all cancer control services, from prevention through palliation. |
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| Far advanced cancer is common in the kingdom but outside Riyadh there was little palliation and none by trained Saudi physicians. |
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| It is swifter in its destruction of the central nervous system and responds poorly to symptomatic palliation. |
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| My assessment was as quick as I dared: not for resuscitation, but for full palliation. |
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| Although the palliation of the regime's oppression can be considered an improvement, a true regime transition has not started yet. |
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| The European civil protection mechanism then appears to be efficient palliation. |
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| It shifts the focus from eradication and cure to containment and palliation. |
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| This recognition allows patients to halt toxic treatment, opt for effective palliation and articulate their goals for the end of life. |
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| It may be more suitable to reserve palliation for care provided to patients with conditions for which there is no expected recovery and the determination of time of death is uncertain and dependent on other variables. |
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| The Earth as we now know it resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy. |
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| The group advocates for a national system which will optimize care and treatment outcomes through all phases of the cancer control continuum, from prevention, through to treatment and palliation. |
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| Services are provided in a holistic fashion across the continuum of care, including health promotion and prevention, treatment, referral, therapy, supportive care, and palliation. |
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| Therapeutic radiation means one or more treatments of radiation given with the aim of achieving palliation or cure with gamma rays, x-rays, alpha or beta particles. |
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| The program was rapidly growing to encompass long-term care, home care, pharmacare, and palliation, among other concerns, and the health ministry had to grapple with the escalation of these types of services. |
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| This information enables us to be in a better position to develop policies and programs across the cancer continuum, from prevention to palliation, which may affect clinical practice, system development and patient outcomes. |
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| The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. |
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