Disability in patients with advanced cancer often results from bed rest, deconditioning, and neurologic and musculoskeletal complications of cancer or cancer treatment. Terminally ill patients have a high prevalence of weakness, pain, fatigue, and dyspnea in addition to other symptoms. Rehabilitatio
Palliative surgical care
✍ Scribed by J. A. Søreide
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
- DOI
- 10.1002/bjs.7133
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