Terminal cancer patients 'given pointless treatment': Cancer patients who do not have long to live are being given surgery or other treatment even though it will bring them no benefit, doctors are warning.
But it cautions doctors who are not cancer specialists think patients with cancer who develop unexpected complications “are sometimes given an over-optimistic picture of their outlook”.
This can lead to “inappropriate or unhelpful interventions” in those in their last weeks of life, say the authors of the report, Cancer patients in crisis: responding to urgent needs.
