Maria Pérez-Torres Lobato, Lucía Navarro-Marchena, Iñigo de Noriega, Miriam Morey Olivé, Palma Solano-Páez, Eloísa Rubio Pérez, Carmen Garrido Colino, Miriam García Abos, María Tallón García, Beatriz Huidobro Labarga, Raquel Portugal Rodríguez, Blanca López Ibor, Álvaro Lassaletta, Andrés Morgenstern Isaak, Ofelia Cruz Martínez, Lorena Valero Arrese, Anna Llort Sales, Luis Gros Subias, Catalina Márquez Vega, Lucas Moreno, Eduardo Quiroga-Cantero
BACKGROUND: Brain tumors represent the most common cause of cancer-related death in children. Few studies concerning the palliative phase in children with brain tumors are available. OBJECTIVES: (i) To describe the palliative phase in children with brain tumors; (ii) to determine whether the use of palliative sedation (PS) depends on the place of death, the age of the patient, or if they received specific palliative care (PC). METHODS: Retrospective multicenter study between 2010 and 2021, including children from one month to 18 years, who had died of a brain tumor...
August 30, 2023: Clinical & Translational Oncology