Journal
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages S1-S11Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318249aa98
Keywords
pediatric oncology; palliative care; pain physiology and management; Middle Eastern countries
Categories
Funding
- Ministry of Health, Republic of Cyprus
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In all the major medical centers throughout the Middle East, there is a functioning pediatric hematology oncology department. In almost all countries, opioids such as morphine, oxycodone, and fentanyl are available. Pediatric palliative care services are still in their infancy and await further recognition and development. Unfortunately, there are still countries in the Middle East where children with cancer are diagnosed when the disease is already at stage III or IV, when the only option left is palliation. To decrease the incidence of laic presentation, more effort is needed concerning public awareness, and concomitantly, an urgent need to develop hospital-based and community-based palliative and supportive care services. The initial step in this direction would involve more training of health care providers: Pediatricians, Pediatric Oncologists, Oncology Nurses, and Social Workers with updated pharmacological and nonpharmacological modalities of treatment.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available