Department of Medicine and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Center for Research on End-of-life Care and the Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Oncologist. 2017 Aug;22(8):883-885. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041. Epub 2017 May 26.
Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side‐effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions.
不精确的术语掩盖了癌症患者愿意忍受治疗潜在毒性和副作用的原因。这里提出了化疗分类的重新命名,以澄清预期的定义。