Skip to main content
Postgraduate Medical Journal logoLink to Postgraduate Medical Journal
. 1973 Oct;49(576):732–736. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.49.576.732

The terminal care of patients with lung cancer

R G Twycross
PMCID: PMC2495821  PMID: 4132166

Abstract

Lung cancer is the commonest form of malignant disease seen at St Christopher's Hospice. More than 35% of the male and about 8% of the female cancer patients are admitted with this diagnosis. This means that each year approximately 100 patients with lung cancer are amitted and cared for at the hospice. The more common symptoms experienced by 185 consecutive terminal lung cancer patients admitted to St Christopher's Hospice are listed in Table 1.

Full text

PDF
732

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Smithers D. Where to die. Br Med J. 1973 Jan 6;1(5844):34–35. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.5844.34. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Postgraduate Medical Journal are provided here courtesy of BMJ Publishing Group

RESOURCES