[Difficulties regarding the development of palliative treatment]

Palliative care is the branch of medicine which studies and applies the best way to cure when the traditional method is no longer able to interrupt the course of the disease until death. Two of the main characteristics of this kind of cure is to offer a support system to help the patient's family during the illness and to involve psychological care of the patient. The different approach with the patient and the new role of the doctor are just two obstacles of the spread of the palliative cure.