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Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2010 Jan;71(1):6-7. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2010.71.1.45964.
This month's journal contains a symposium on palliative medicine without any sections relating directly to cancer. This may be surprising for those who still understand palliative medicine as an oncological offshoot. The need for the adoption of the palliative care approach beyond the confines of oncology has long been recognized. Four years before the opening of the first modern hospice at St Christopher's in Sydenham, John Hinton (1963) demonstrated that the morbidity of patients with non-malignant conditions was as great or greater than those with cancer (National Council for Palliative Care, 2007).
本月的期刊中有一个关于姑息医学的专题讨论会，其中没有任何直接与癌症相关的章节。对于那些仍然将姑息医学视为肿瘤学分支的人来说，这可能会令人惊讶。长期以来，人们已经认识到在肿瘤学范围之外采用姑息治疗方法的必要性。在位于锡德纳姆的圣克里斯托弗临终关怀院开设第一家现代临终关怀机构的四年前，约翰·辛顿（1963年）就证明，非恶性疾病患者的发病率与癌症患者的发病率一样高或更高（国家姑息治疗委员会，2007年）。
