Objective: To explore the value of palliative operation in late stage breast cancer patients.(目的：探讨姑息性手术在晚期乳癌患者综合治疗中的价值。)
Because of her work, Cooney knew to ask for palliative care when she was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer nearly three years ago.(三年前，库尼被诊断出得了晚期卵巢癌。她因为工作的原因，知道主动要求接受姑息疗法。)
Belgium trains all its family doctors in palliative care, but has very few specialist teams of carers.(在比利时，家庭医生都接受了缓痛护理培训，但专业临终关怀人员仍很缺乏。)
Cooney says she wishes that more patients and their caregivers knew to ask for palliative care. "People think, 'My doctor will ask if I need it,'" Cooney says.(库尼说，她希望更多的患者及他们的家庭护理懂得主动去要求接受姑息疗法。她说：“患者认为‘如果我需要这种疗法的话，我的医生会告诉我的’，可事实上，患者得自己去要求。”)
But I used a program of palliative care to control my symptoms and allow me to tolerate the chemo.(之前我接受了副作用很强的化疗，姑息疗法帮我控制住了病情，我才受得了化疗。)
But this is a temporary palliative.(但是这是一个暂时的缓和措。)
Palliative care helped with many aspects of cancer therapy, which put her in remission for two years, Cooney says.(她说姑息疗法对癌症治疗过程中的各个方面都有助益，两年来她的病情已经得到缓解。)
Relief from physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems can be achieved in over 90% of advanced cancer patients through palliative care.(通过姑息治疗，可在90%以上的晚期癌症患者中缓解身体、社会心理和精神问题。)
Study Design. A retrospective study of patients undergoing palliative surgery for metastatic spinal tumors.(研究设计：回顾性研究接受姑息手术的转移性脊柱肿瘤的患者。)
At that point, he could have opted for palliative care and gone home on hospice with a decent enough quality of life to enjoy what little time he had left.(那个时侯他可以选择安宁治疗，回家好好渡过他人生最后的一段时间。)
