Keywords
Neoplasms
Palliative care
Pain management
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze palliative care in cancer treatment and the management of symptoms such as pain, nausea and fatigue. Bibliographic review: Palliative care is a multiprofessional approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing cancer, by acting to improve the psychological and physical symptoms caused by the disease and its treatment. Pain is one of the most frequent and problematic symptoms in cancer, being pharmacologically treated with opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and adjuvant therapies with antidepressants, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and anticonvulsants. In addition, complementary treatments such as acupuncture can be used. For nausea the treatment is done according to its etiology. Fatigue is managed with physical exercises and physical therapy. Final considerations: Palliative care should be started, in cancer, ideally earlier in the course of the disease, concomitant with cancer treatment. These aim to improve the patient's quality of life by controlling physical symptoms such as pain, nausea and fatigue with pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, in addition to managing the emotional symptoms of both the patient and their caregivers, and may also increase the patient survival.
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