Nursing before the Hospice Care in Oncology: Integrative Review

Cancer is still a dreaded disease by many even in the twentyfirst century and is generally associated with death. Therefore, requires specialized care due to its complexity, it reaches patients in pain and various diseases, such as the meaning of death generally attributed to the disease, arising physical discomfort of the various types of treatment, high costs of medication, long time to treat, possible sequelae from mutilating operations, among other things [1]. Initially palliative care was provided to patients with cancer and later were extended to other areas. The palliative care in nursing is a set of procedures to alleviate the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients, that is, when the cure is not possible [2].