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Palliative care plays an increasingly important role in terminally ill patients with advanced gastric cardiac cancer. The most important task in palliative care is to reduce mental and physical suffering and help patients live more comfortably. This requires a multidisciplinary approach with specialists from oncology, social work, nutrition, and psychology. This procedure may be executed in conjunction with other curative interventions including chemotherapy and radiation therapy as early as possible to prevent complications and potentially prolong patient life.

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  1. Department of Oncology, the Affiliated Changzhou No.2 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Qian Geng & Xiaolin Pu

  2. VA North California Healthcare System, Mather, CA, USA

    Kun Yan

  3. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA, USA

    Qin Huang

  4. Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Qin Huang

  5. Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA

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Geng, Q., Pu, X., Yan, K., Huang, Q., Zhan, E.H. (2018). Palliative Care. In: Huang, Q. (eds) Gastric Cardiac Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79114-2_16

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