Association for Vascular Access, Medina, TX 78055, USA.
Semin Oncol Nurs. 2010 Aug;26(3):144-50. doi: 10.1016/j.soncn.2010.05.008.
To summarize the scientific and technologic advances contributing to the increasing number of people who are living with advanced cancer, associated economic costs, psychosocial burdens, and public policy.
Published books and journal articles, web resources, newspapers and news magazines.
Scientific and technologic advances, combined with unidentified inherent traits, allow some people with advanced cancer to live for varying and increasingly long periods of time. Public policy, provisions for care, and service delivery lag behind the science, thereby excluding this emerging population from the attention now being paid to survivors with potentially curable cancer.
Nurses in clinical practice settings must be attuned to the unique needs associated with living with advanced cancer. Nurses in all settings must advocate for and participate in nursing research efforts to identify needs, gaps and shortcomings in care delivery, and development of interventions, services, programs, and resources to address the needs of this growing population. Finally, awareness that this population has unique needs and burdens prepares nurses to lead and/or participate in efforts to craft public policy that promotes optimal health and well-being among people living with advanced cancer.
总结促进越来越多晚期癌症患者生存的科学和技术进步、相关经济成本、心理社会负担和公共政策。
出版书籍和期刊文章、网络资源、报纸和新闻杂志。
科学和技术的进步，加上尚未确定的内在特征，使一些晚期癌症患者能够存活不同且越来越长的时间。公共政策、护理规定和服务提供落后于科学，从而将这一新兴人群排除在目前对有潜在治愈可能的癌症幸存者的关注之外。
临床实践环境中的护士必须关注与晚期癌症生存相关的独特需求。所有环境中的护士都必须倡导并参与护理研究工作，以确定护理提供方面的需求、差距和不足，并制定干预措施、服务、计划和资源，以满足这一不断增长的人群的需求。最后，认识到这一人群有独特的需求和负担，使护士能够领导和/或参与制定公共政策，促进晚期癌症患者的最佳健康和福祉。
