Palliative care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer dying under surgical care: a case for acute palliative care units?
A substantial proportion of patients die with gastrointestinal cancer on general surgical wards without operative or endoscopic intervention and may receive better end of life care in an acute palliative care setting.
HNSCC is a serious disease that often necessitates aggressive treatment. All patients who are medically eligible should receive curative treatment, without age being an exclusion criterion. Taking comorbidity into account, on the other hand, enables treatment options to be optimized.