Approximately 70-75% of hospice patients have advanced cancer.
The assessment of hopelessness is not easy in the person who has advanced cancer with no hope of a cure.
Almost all patients who have advanced cancer will have anorexia.
The goal of nutrition therapy for patients who have advanced cancer is to help with the patient's quality of life.
The goals of nutrition therapy for patients who have advanced cancer include the following:
It's only been studied with women having advanced, metastatic, breast cancer.
"While I was dean, there was a woman who had advanced ovarian cancer, which is very painful," she said.
Patients who have advanced cancer may develop a bowelobstruction that cannot be removed with surgery.
He studied 48 women who had advanced ovarian cancer that was impervious to standard chemotherapy.
We hadn't been in Montgomery for five weeks when my mother called to report that my father had advanced gastric cancer.