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Curative, Life-Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names

Published:2017-05-26 Issue:8 Volume:22 Page:883-885
ISSN:1083-7159
Container-title:The Oncologist
language:en
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Author:

Neugut Alfred I.¹,Prigerson Holly G.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medicine and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

2. Center for Research on End-of-life Care and the Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell School of Medicine New York, New York, USA

Abstract

Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side-effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions.

Funder

National Cancer Institute

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Cancer Research,Oncology

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041

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