Current
Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, December 2013, vol./is.
7/4(417-23)
Steigleder
T, Stiel S, Ostgathe C
This review of publications
dealing with advanced stages of brain tumours tries to assess the knowledge
gained in the past 2 years and to develop an outlook for further
investigations. Data suggest that patients with primary or metastatic brain tumours
often have a high symptom burden and unmet needs for palliative care and
symptoms are hard to diagnose; patients suffer often and early from cognitive
impairment but are rarely appropriately prepared concerning end-of-life wishes.
This reflects on their caregivers' burden as well.
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Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care