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It is clear that many patients and their families have preferences for deaths at home or in a hospice. Palliative care can help avoid hospital and particularly the intensive care unit for end of life cancer care (49).
While the growth of hospice and palliative care as a specialty has advanced care considerably, many women and their families do not have access to these specialists and still need compassionate, knowledgeable care from their primary care and gynaecological oncology care givers, whether primary or secondary members of their care team. ‘We are left to help the dying using the qualities we value in care for the living, such as empathy and respect for patients' preferences and goals' (50). These are attributes that every health professional can call on to assist in palliative and hospice care.
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