Open AccessInitial experience of head and neck cancer patients treated in an oncologist led palliative cancer care clinic at a tertiary cancer care center in uttar pradesh: Is the initiative of a full-fledged palliative care for cancer patients justified
Author(s) -
Punita Lal,
Mranalini Verma,
Kumar Gaurav,
Resham Shrivastava,
Shaleen Kumar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.191854
Subject(s) - medicine , palliative care , cancer , referral , psychosocial , head and neck cancer , socioeconomic status , audit , family medicine , physical therapy , nursing , psychiatry , management , economics , population , environmental health
Poor socioeconomic status and illiteracy attribute to the advanced presentation of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients in India and are candidates for palliation in our setup. We set up a palliative cancer care clinic (PCCC), and an audit of initial 153 HNC patients is presented.