Nayak Malathi, Salins Naveen
Department of Community Health Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University, Manipal, India.
Indian J Palliat Care. 2011 Sep;17(3):248-50. doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.92351.
Adolescents and young adults with cancer are a heterogeneous group. Management of this special group requires a broad-based interdisciplinary clinical team, which should include palliative care (PC), psychology, social work, oncology, and nursing representatives. The function of PC is to provide impeccable pain and other symptom control and to coordinate care as the disease progresses. The cure rate of cancer in adolescents is high but between 10% and 40% of them will develop incurable disease depending on tumor type and prognostic factors. PC in adolescents should also take care of the specific physical and psychosocial developmental changes in this age group. A 16-year old boy suffered with incurable disease and team has provided the PC at the door step taken as a case study.
患癌青少年和青年是一个异质性群体。对这一特殊群体的管理需要一个基础广泛的跨学科临床团队，其中应包括姑息治疗（PC）、心理学、社会工作、肿瘤学和护理方面的代表。姑息治疗的作用是在疾病进展过程中提供无可挑剔的疼痛及其他症状控制，并协调护理。青少年癌症的治愈率较高，但根据肿瘤类型和预后因素，其中10%至40%的人会发展为不治之症。青少年姑息治疗还应关注该年龄组特定的身体和心理社会发育变化。以一名患有不治之症的16岁男孩为例，团队在其家门口提供了姑息治疗。
