End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Chronic Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 1477
Special Issue Editors
Interests: quality of life; oncology; integrative and complementary practices; evidence-based practice; surgical nursing
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Interests: oncology nursing; palliative care; signs and symptoms; symptom assessment; evaluation study
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
End-of-life care requires a set of multi-professional practices and approaches aimed at providing comfort, dignity, and support to individuals in the final stages of their lives. The goal is to ensure that patients and their families face this time with the utmost serenity, dignity, and quality of life possible, respecting the patient’s choices and values. The main aspects of care include measures to alleviate symptoms, pain, and suffering, as well as providing emotional, spiritual, and psychological support to both the patient and their families. Promoting awareness and the adequate training of healthcare professionals is essential to ensuring these care practices are offered with quality and respect. Thus, we invite you to present your research and disseminate knowledge in the field on the following topics:
- Multidisciplinary approaches to end-of-life care;
- Pain management and control in palliative care;
- Assessment and control of symptoms in terminal patients;
- Psychosocial and emotional aspects of palliative care;
- Evidence-based interventions to improve quality of life at the end of life;
- Effective communication between healthcare team, patients, and families;
- Experiences and challenges faced by caregivers and healthcare professionals;
- Ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care;
- Integration of palliative care in oncology practice;
- Innovations and new technologies applied to palliative care;
- Case studies, experience reports, and systematic reviews in end-of-life care.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Namie Okino Sawada
Dr. Vander Monteiro da Conceição
Prof. Dr. Fabiana Bolela
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- end-of-life care
- oncology
- palliative care
- quality of life
- dignity
- control of symptoms
- effective communication
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