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Living till the End: Cancer Patients in the Last Phase of Life
- Publication date
- 1 November 2006
- Publisher
- In this thesis, two main subjects are addressed:
quality of life of cancer patients in their last phase of life (part
1 of the thesis) and end-of-life care and medical decision making
(part 2 of the thesis). The first part of the thesis includes
studies on the psychological status and feelings of cancer patients
after they have been informed of their diagnosis of incurable cancer,
and on the quality of life of these patients during their last year
of life. The second part explores the content and evaluation of end-
of-life care, and patients care needs. This part also addresses
the attitudes of cancer patients toward medical end-of-life decision
making and differences in dying at home or in an institution.