"Palliative treatment" refers to medical care that focuses on improving the quality of life for people who are suffering from serious illnesses or conditions. It aims to relieve symptoms such as pain, nausea, or discomfort, rather than trying to cure the disease itself. The goal is to provide comfort and support to patients and their families during difficult times.
Full definition
By performing comparative studies in complementary models (C. elegans and human muscle biopsies), we expect that our results will contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in human MDs and that the mechanisms and suppressors, which we will discover, will be instrumental towards the development of efficient
palliative treatments for human MDs.
Radiation therapy may be considered
as palliative treatment when hope of cure is small but where improvement in quality of life by reducing symptoms such as pain, bleeding or loss of function can be achieved.
Dr Miguel Martins from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester explained: «Parkinson's disease is a disabling disorder for which no cure is yet available; further, after dopaminergic neurons are lost, only a
few palliative treatment options for Parkinson's symptoms are available.
This transcatheter valve
offers palliative treatment for the patients who were denied surgery, especially those with multiple co-morbidities.»
Similar techniques can play a role in the application of investigational treatments, such as gene therapy, and
in palliative treatment, which works to relieve pain and other symptoms related to the disease.
If specialty care is not an option, your regular vet can supply your pet
with palliative treatment for specific symptoms as they occur.
they are
palliative treatments, but don't get to the root of the problem.
In general, treatment is only considered necessary in clinically affected individuals and may involve either
palliative treatment or curative surgery [8, 20].
If there is a possibility for
any palliative treatment, then we may refer you to any number of top veterinary hospitals and experts.
Veterinarians can help with life support and
some palliative treatments.