Comfort care
| Comfort care | |
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| Term | Comfort care |
| Short definition | Comfort care - (pronounced) (KUM-furt kayr) Caring for people who are nearing the end of their lives and who have stopped treatment to cure or control their disease. Comfort care includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support for patients and their families. The goal of comfort care is to control pain and other symptoms so that the patient is as comfortable as possible. Comfort care can include palliative care, supportive care, and hospice care. Also called terminal care |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
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Comfort care - (pronounced) (KUM-furt kayr) Caring for people who are nearing the end of their lives and who have stopped treatment to cure or control their disease. Comfort care includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support for patients and their families. The goal of comfort care is to control pain and other symptoms so that the patient is as comfortable as possible. Comfort care can include palliative care, supportive care, and hospice care. Also called terminal care
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