palliative chemotherapy

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Indications

avoid end-of-life chemotherapy
- added expense
- diminished quality of life
- no survival benefit

↑ Mueller PS NEJM Journal Watch. March 13, 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society http://www.jwatch.org
Wright AA et al. Associations between palliative chemotherapy and adult cancer patients' end of life care and place of death: Prospective cohort study. BMJ 2014 Mar 4; 348:g1219 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24594868