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- Title
Integrated oncology and palliative care: five years experience at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico.
- Authors
Allende-Pérez, Silvia; Verástegui-Avilés, Emma; Mohar-Betancourt, Alejandro; Meneses-García, Abelardo; Herrera-Gómez, Angel
- Abstract
Under the national plan for addressing cancer, prevention and detection play important roles. However, the cost of treatments and late diagnosis represent a significant burden on health services. At the National Cancer Institute, more than half of patients present with tumors in advanced stages, and approximately 10% of patients seen for the first time exhibit terminal-stage malignancies, where there are no feasible cancer treatment options, and the patients are instead admitted to the hospital exclusively for palliative symptomatic management. In 2010, the National Cancer Plan began implementing a model of integrative management of palliative care in oncology that has gradually come to include symptomatic palliative care, involving ambulatory, distant and hospitalized management of patients with cancer, in its final stages and, more recently, in earlier stages.
- Subjects
MEXICO; ONCOLOGY; PALLIATIVE treatment; EARLY detection of cancer; CANCER treatment; CANCER prevention; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Salud Pública de México, 2016, Vol 58, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
0036-3634
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21149/spm.v58i2.7803