Responding to Acute Care Needs of Patients With Cancer: Recent Trends Across Continents.

ABSTRACT: Remarkable progress has been made over the past decade in cancer medicine. Personalized medicine, driven by biomarker predictive factors, novel biotherapy, novel imaging, and molecular targeted therapeutics, has improved outcomes. Cancer is becoming a chronic disease rather than a fatal disease for many patients. However, despite this progress, there is much work to do if patients are to receive continuous high-quality care in the appropriate place, at the appropriate time, and with the right specialized expert oversight. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of therapeutic options has also generated an ever-increasing burden of emergency care and encroaches into end-of-life palliative care. Emergency presentation is a common consequence of cancer and of cancer treatment complications. It rep

SUBMITTER: Young A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786347 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature