CCC meets ICU: Redefining the role of critical care of cancer patients
Open Access
- 8 November 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Cancer
- Vol. 10 (1), 612
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-612
Abstract
Currently the majority of cancer patients are considered ineligible for intensive care treatment and oncologists are struggling to get their patients admitted to intensive care units. Critical care and oncology are frequently two separate worlds that communicate rarely and thus do not share novel developments in their fields. However, cancer medicine is rapidly improving and cancer is eventually becoming a chronic disease. Oncology is therefore characterized by a growing number of older and medically unfit patients that receive numerous novel drug classes with unexpected side effects.Keywords
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