Palliative therapy: Treatment given to relieve the symptoms
and reduce the suffering caused by cancer and other life-threatening
diseases. Palliative cancer therapies are given together with other cancer
treatments, from the time of diagnosis, through treatment, survivorship,
recurrent or advanced disease, and at the end of life.
Source: National Institute of Health
Count: Palliative therapy is listed as a: treatment for 1 conditions; alternative treatment for 0 conditions; preventive treatment for 0 conditions; research treatment for 0 conditions.
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