Some parents weigh 'hastening death' for children in extreme pain with terminal cancer

Monday, March 15, 2010 - 23:49 in Health & Medicine

A survey of parents who had a child die of cancer found that one in eight considered hastening their child's death, a deliberation influenced by the amount of pain the child experienced during the last month of life, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine...

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