| The patients receiving radical treatment had a greater need for information about side effects than did those being treated palliatively. |
| It may also be used palliatively in life-threatening cancers that have not responded to other forms of therapy. |
| Some tumours are too advanced to cure, but can be treated palliatively with such interventions. |
| He was treated palliatively but died from disseminated disease two months later. |
| However, qi may be used palliatively to support the self-healing potential of a patient. |
| Two patients with cancer of papilla of Vater were palliatively treated with endoscopic resection. |
