But the suspension, if prolonged, will focus new pressure on those governments allied with Syria, particularly Russia and Iran, which have backed the plan as the only way to stop the violence.
Involvement of specialist palliative care in the elderly homes and a treatment with a palliative (rather than curative or life-prolonging) focus, was associated with a lower percentage of hospitalised patients.
It does not mean abandoning active treatment, but changing focus from prolonging life to improving its quality.
The Baby Boomer generation's focus on prolonging the quality of life allows them to remain in the workforce longer, delaying younger employees' promotions, which limits the number of entry-level jobs available.
The goals of therapy in patients who have metastatic disease focus on prolonging survival and maintaining quality of life by controlling symptoms and minimizing toxicity.
Metastatic breast cancer is currently incurable and the goals of therapy focus on prolonging survival and maintaining quality of life by controlling symptoms and minimizing toxicity.
This suggests a difference in perspective between palliative care clinicians, for whom "palliative" refers to improvement in quality of life, and those clinicians who focus on prolonging life.
If this is not possible, therapy goals should focus on prolonging overall and progression-free survival (OS and PFS) as well as relief of symptoms and improvement of quality of life (QOL).
7 9–11 Since the vast majority of patients cannot be cured, outcome measures in clinical cancer research have traditionally focused on prolonging the overall survival, progression-free survival or response to the medical treatment.
Amphetamine and methamphetamine (hereafter amphetamines) can prolong wakefulness, increase focus and feelings of energy as well as decrease fatigue.
For this reason, treatment goals in standard oncology care have often focused solely on prolonging life rather than improving QoL early in the course of the disease [ 4].
