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1 August 2014

Reflecting on Inpatient Palliative Chemotherapy—Is There Ever a “Right Place” at the “Right Time”?

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Division of Medical Oncology and Atlantic Clinical Cancer Research Unit, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Division of Palliative Medicine, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Curr. Oncol.2014, 21(4), 158-160;https://doi.org/10.3747/co.21.2126
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Early in clinical training, medical oncologists are taught that the goals of any palliative oncologic therapy include symptom control, quality-of-life improvement through disease stabilization, and prolongation of progression-free survival.[...]

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