Abstract
Palliative care considered as a support care for anyone living with a complex disease such as cancer, it has a great role in decreasing the severity of illness and slowness loss of functions by symptoms control and management in different stages of cancer. Palliative care is a specialized care area bounded to deliver health care facilities to patients who suffer from direct, indirect symptoms, unmet needs, for prevention and relief suffering from psychological issues mainly emotional issues (depression, anxiety, and delirium) and physiological issues like (nausea, vomiting, fatigue, xerostomia, headache, osteoradionecrosis, hemoptysis, dyspnea, taste loss, and pain). So its goal is to prolong their survival with the best possible quality of life for both the patients and their families.
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