End of life in children with cancer: Experience at the Pediatric Oncology Department of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-91

  Beretta, Silvia ^a   Polastri, Daniela ^a   Clerici, Carlo Alfredo ^a,b   Casanova, Michela ^a   Cefalo, Graziella ^a   Ferrari, Andrea ^a   Luksch, Roberto ^a   Massimino, Maura ^a   Meazza, Cristina ^a   Podda, Marta Giorgia ^a   Spreafico, Filippo ^a   Terenziani, Monica ^a   Bellani, Franca Fossati ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Children; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; DEATH; DYSPNEA; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PEDIATRICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; VOMITING; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349125808     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22284     Document Type: Article

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