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[Intensive care therapy for cancer patients].
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Over the last 15 years, the management of critically ill cancer patients requiring intensive care unit admission has substantially changed. High mortality rates (75-85%) were reported 10-20 years ago in cancer patients requiring life sustaining treatments. Because of these high mortality rates, the high costs, and the moral bur den for patients and their families, ICU admission of cancer patie...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1100