Use of cannabinoids in cancer care: palliative care.

All too often neglected, maximal quality improvement in the setting of lifelimiting illness and noxious symptomatology is a worthy medical, public health, and humanitarian goal. The World Health Organization estimates that, globally, about 60% of all people who die would benefit from palliative care before death; however, palliative care is not exclusively reserved for patients at the end of life .