Biography
Biography: Louis Caze
Abstract
What is supportive care?
Support care means all care and support that can be offered to a person suffering from cancer, alongside specific treatments to cure his disease such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. They aim to Reduce the impact of disease and treatment. For this, a team of professionals specialized in very different fields put their skills available to patients to help them cope with this difficult time.The support can be offered care during and after treatment of the disease but also when the cancer treatments have no effect. They adapt to the needs of patients and their families.
What needs do they meet? The disease affects all aspects of daily life. The needs that may occur are numerous.
Support care can meet some of these needs:
• Primarily to control the symptoms related to the disease or its treatment
• In case of physical or psychological suffering
• To break isolation
• To learn to live with the physical consequences imposed sometimes disease
• To resume normal course of his life and benefit from the best possible living conditions, and that whatever the chances of recovery
• For many other reasons, each patient with the needs of its own.