- WHAT IS Paliative care?
- It is care that helps in releiving symptons caused by serious illness like cancer.
- It improves quality of life of the patient and make life comfortable but not intended to care disease itself. it is supportine treatment.
- Relelief of symptoms- like Pain, nausea, fatigue breathlessness with medical treatment and psychological counselling.
- It is mainly treatment promoting comfort to patient and family when aggressive treatment is failed for the disease.
- Paliative Care is care given during cancer treatments managing chemotherapy and radiotherapy related side effects for cancer.
- It assures all patient's care needs like physical, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual.
- At some stage, cancer may not be treatable, but cancer pain can be adequately controlled.