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8849280

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a significant way to enable terminally ill cancer patients to live with high quality of life at home. However, the most important condition to perform HPN is the patients' desire to return to their home. For this purpose, we should consider in informing them of the truth of their disease. We had three terminal cancer patients who returned to their home with HPN. Cas 1: 52-year-old woman, recurrent stomach cancer. She did not know her cancer. She stayed at home for 45 days with HPN. Case 2: 46-year-old woman, recurrent stomach cancer. She did not know her recurrence of cancer. She stayed at home for only 15 days with HPN. Case 3: 45-year-old woman, recurrent pancreatic head cancer. She knew her disease and her life expectancy. She had 6-year-old daughter and desired to return home. She stayed at home with HPN for 8 months. As we told Case 3 truth of her disease when she was diagnosed as recurrence of cancer, she lived at home with HPN for 8 months. From the experience of three cases, we may concluded that, the sooner the patients are informed the truth about their disease, the longer they can stay at home with HPN and spend their limited time with high QOL.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0385-0684
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22 Suppl 4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
384-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
[Home parenteral nutrition for terminal cancer patients--when should we tell the truth about their disease and return them to their home with HPN].
pubmed:affiliation
Dept. of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Osaka Prefectural Hospital (11-East Ward).
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports