Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms slows its progress rather than providing a cure. However, it may occasionally in conjunction with curative therapy, providing that the curative therapy will cause additional morbidity. It aims at improving quality of life, by reducing eliminating pain and other physical symptoms, enabling the patient to ease or psychological and spiritual problems, and supporting the partner and carers.
According to W.H.O. statement, Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial…
