Farncombe M L
Palliative Care Service, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
Curr Opin Oncol. 1994 Jul;6(4):335-9. doi: 10.1097/00001622-199407000-00002.
The recent literature on ambulatory supportive care for the cancer patient encompasses a wide area. Those topics that have been most dominant are reviewed in this article, including the roles of primary care physicians and specialists, symptom control in the palliative-care patient, quality-of-life issues, and economic considerations.