Abstract

SUAREZ PEREZ, Ángela J. Ethical and practical recommendations: How to food terminal and advanced stage cancer patents. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2006, vol.6, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

The main objective of the treatment to the cancer patient in advanced and terminal phases is to reach to the possible best quality of life. For this an integral attention is required, which scientific, philosophical and ethics base preserves, in the end of life, the human dimension. The efficiency and effectiveness of attention depends on how much attention is adapted to each patient's peculiarities and concrete conditions. Among the symptoms that more frequently impact in this patients is the anorexia, that not only carries physical consequences, but rather it anorexia are exposed, some ethical considerations around the feeding of these patients and practical recommendations are offered, guided to achieve an appropriate handling of the feeding that contributes to maintain an acceptable quality of life in this stage

Keywords : FEEDING METODOS [ethics].

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