Patients with lung cancer are receiving chemotherapy for longer, but that is not necessarily a good thing. The quality of the last phase of life deteriorates as a result.
Pulmonologist Jan Willem van den Berg and colleagues indicate that chemotherapy hardly extends the life of lung cancer patients. However, the quality of the last phase of life is strongly deteriorating.
He believes that more attention should be paid to the negative sides of chemotherapy. Many visits to the hospital, false hopes, less time to prepare for the dying phase, these are some of the disadvantages that the pulmonologist mentions.
Do you think chemotherapy should be short-lived in lung cancer patients?
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