(Reuters) – the terminally ill cancer patients are less<\/p>\n
likely to receive aggressive treatment as the<\/p>\n
chemotherapy in their last two weeks of life if they speak with<\/p>\n
their doctors about how they want to die, according to a study<\/p>\n
in United States.<\/p>\n
the analysis, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,<\/p>\n
he followed 1,231 people with lung or advanced colon cancer<\/p>\n
who died in a period of 14 months, within one study more<\/p>\n
broad about the disease.<\/p>\n
researchers interviewed patients or their<\/p>\n
caregivers about if patients had talked to their doctors<\/p>\n
of their treatment at the end of life, and if so,<\/p>\n
when there had been the conversation.<\/p>\n
treatment that tries to keep alive patients<\/p>\n
terminals is usually expensive and can not improve their quality of life<\/p>\n
or your comfort. also means more time in the hospital, in<\/p>\n
place of in house or in a residence.<\/p>\n
“aggressive treatment at the end of life for patients<\/p>\n
concrete it is not necessarily bad, it is just that most of<\/p>\n
patients who recognizes that you dying does not want to receive<\/p>\n
that kind of attention”, said the Director of the study, Jennifer<\/p>\n
Mack, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.<\/p>\n
Mack and his colleagues also found records<\/p>\n
doctors in search of conversations about the end of life and<\/p>\n
treatments and hospital income you received the<\/p>\n
sick in their last month of life.<\/p>\n
team found that most of the patients – 88 by<\/p>\n
cent – had had conversations about his death, but more than<\/p>\n
onethird of those talks occurred less than a month before<\/p>\n
that “died the patient, when probably his health already<\/p>\n
was deteriorated. nearly two-thirds of the talks<\/p>\n
they occurred with patients in the hospital.<\/p>\n
almost half of the participants received treatment<\/p>\n
aggressive to prolong their lives, according to the team of Mack.<\/p>\n
on the contrary, those who had spoken about his death more<\/p>\n
one month before his death they had between 50 and 60 per cent<\/p>\n
less than likely to receive that extra treatment that the<\/p>\n
patients who postponed those talks or not had them in<\/p>\n
absolute.<\/p>\n
patients and caregivers who said having spoken of the issue<\/p>\n
with doctors they were almost seven times more likely to end<\/p>\n
in a unit of terminally ill than those who remembered not<\/p>\n
have held talks about death.<\/p>\n
“”Many patients don’t want to (aggressive treatment) but<\/p>\n
do not recognize that they are dying or that this is relevant for<\/p>\n
them”, explained Camilla Zimmerman, head of palliative care<\/p>\n
in the network of health of the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n
“sooner you try these things, more options you have. If<\/p>\n
you expect too much, you end up having these conversations with<\/p>\n
someone whom you don’t know, who you just find, in a<\/p>\n
impatient context”, noted.<\/p>\n
Zimmermann, who did not participate in the study, believes than ever<\/p>\n
is too early to talk about the preferences of the<\/p>\n
patient at the end of his life, although it can be uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
“believe that people are afraid to raise this conversation go<\/p>\n
to make him die”, commented. “actually have these<\/p>\n
conversations going to protect them from a result that do not want to<\/p>\n
to the” “endg\u00fcltige, hinzugef\u00fcgt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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