{"id":68826,"date":"2020-11-06T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=68826"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:20:03","slug":"cancer-treatment-palliative-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cancer-treatment-palliative-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer treatment \u2013 Palliative care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context-<\/strong> The present diversion of healthcare facilities and resources to COVID-19 has increased anxiety and confusion among people with cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues with dealing in cancer in a wake of COVID-19 pandemic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Treatment disruption<\/strong>&#8211; The uncertainty about treatment continuation due to the virus spread was stressful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Halt in Cancer screening programmes<\/strong>&#8211; These programmes are so vital for picking up cancer early in order to save lives, have ground to a halt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transportation-<\/strong> With public transportation closure and authorities questioning the reason for traveling has become a complete nightmare for patients to access any type of health-care services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear virus transmission<\/strong>&#8211; Patients have developed fear of the coronavirus that they are unwilling to go to hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>This is because of low immunity, often aggravated by treatments, as well as existing co-morbidities since cancer, by and large, is a disease of older people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the possible solutions of dealing cancer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early recognition- <\/strong>Early detection through vaccination and preliminary screening is very important. Cancer survivorship owes its rising numbers largely to advances in early detection and treatment.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of people who come for treatment to a cancer centre in India come with advanced disease. The figure is nearly 70 per cent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Awareness programmes-<\/strong> These programmes are required to create awareness about the dangerous effect of tobacco products and cancer causing chemicals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palliative care:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness.<\/li>\n<li>It is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with a life-threatening illness.<\/li>\n<li>It involves prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adaption of palliative care<\/strong>&#8211; healthcare providers must find ways to prevent cancer, screen those at heightened risk and mitigate the adverse effects of treatment by making palliative care a part of cancer treatments from the beginning and must find mention in public health policy and be integrated into clinical care from the primary health care level upwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context- The present diversion of healthcare facilities and resources to COVID-19 has increased anxiety and confusion among people with cancer. What are the issues with dealing in cancer in a wake of COVID-19 pandemic? Treatment disruption&#8211; The uncertainty about treatment continuation due to the virus spread was stressful. Halt in Cancer screening programmes&#8211; These programmes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cancer-treatment-palliative-care\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cancer treatment \u2013 Palliative care<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310],"tags":[1289,1456],"class_list":["post-68826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","tag-soc_0","tag-soc_01","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700800090,"cached_date":1704943509},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}