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T1  - Assessing the utilization of the decision to implement a palliative goal for the treatment of cancer patients during the last year of life at Helsinki University Hospital : a historic cohort study 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/319729 
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A1  - Hirvonen, Outi M.; Leskelä, Riikka-Leena; Gronholm, Lotta; Haltia, Olli; Rissanen, Antti; Tyynela-Korhonen, Kristiina; Rahko, Eeva K.; Lehto, Juho T.; Saarto, Tiina 
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Y1  - 2019 
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AB  - Background: To avoid aggressive treatments at the end-of-life and to provide palliative care (PC), physicians need to terminate futile anti-cancer treatments and define the palliative goal of the treatment in time. This single center study assesses the practices used to make the decision that leads to treatment with a palliative goal, i.e., the PC decision and its effect on anti-cancer treatments at the end of life. Material and methods: Patients with a cancer diagnosis treated in tertiary hospi... 
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KW  - OF-LIFE; CHEMOTHERAPY USE; END; CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; TRENDS; AGGRESSIVENESS; HEAD; INTENSITY; 3122 Cancers 
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