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"Are we treating the cancer or the person?": a provocative or enlightening question?
Recenti Prog Med. 2025 Nov;116(11):633-636. doi: 10.1701/4588.45975.ABSTRACTScientific literature and daily experience highlight two worrying phenomena: on the one hand, in the very advanced or even terminal stages of cancer, anticancer therapies are administered with dubious or insufficient and ethically disproportionate indications; on the other, the initiation of palliative care, whether simultaneous or end-of-life, is often too late. Moreover, this occurs despite the opposing recommendations of international and italian scientific societies, indicating the need to forgo (withholding or withdrawing) anticancer treatments that lack solid clinical indications and are ethically disproportionate. The problem can be addressed by removing the factors that hinder…
Origen: "Are we treating the cancer or the person?": a provocative or enlightening question? – PubMed
