Resumen

LLANTA ABREU, María del Carmen. Interdisciplinary approach to quality of life and death in Oncopediatrics. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2011, vol.27, n.1, pp.98-105. ISSN 0864-0319.

Many physicians offering assistance to children and adolescents presenting cancer needed of palliative care fail trying to cure the disease and thus to extend the life and in that attempt of good intentions but lacking of professionalism and ethics become suffering sources for patients, relatives and for the working staff for maintaining a therapeutic obstinacy in most cases; in other, even though they understand the reality of a near death don't make an appropriate management of psychological , spiritual and social factors to help in a good death. Is it quality of life, is it a person ending its life or it is death quality until the last moment of its existence? , in other words, are cares for life at the end of the life and thus it is necessary an appropriate therapeutic management of the to live/to die in these age groups, which are the objective of present paper, where the features of ontogeny development make it more difficult than in the adult ones. It is a hard and difficult task, being necessary training and a real interdisciplinary work but at the same time rewarding and of a great contribution to our personal growth, because, there will be a more noble and human task that to be the company of children in the last days of existence by the life?

Palabras clave : Quality of life; quality of death; Oncopediatrics; palliative cares.

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