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The range and role of palliative interventions for locally advanced breast cancer
1Supportive and Palliative Care, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Purpose Of Review:
The role of palliative care interventions in patients with nonmetastatic disease is unclear. Locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) is such a diagnosis that presents a platform to examine the relationship of symptom management while patients are receiving treatment with curative intent.
Recent Findings:
Overwhelming physical and psychological symptoms can affect women with LABC. Fungating lesions at the time of primary presentation remain a major challenge. Treatments specifically for the treatment of fungating lesions using new dressings, topical analgesics, buccal opioids, and old techniques such as larval therapy were explored.
Summary:
LABC is a complex biosocial disease that requires a collaborative interdisciplinary approach to care.
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