Matthias W. Wichmann • Guy Maddern
Editors

2014

The optimal care for patients suffering from terminal and end-stage disease due to malignancies or other conditions has gained significantly more attention by health-care professionals across all specialties. This is an important area for general surgeons – we always have performed procedures on terminally ill patients but rarely described it as “Palliative Surgery”. If we are already performing such surgery, why should we need to write a book about it? There are a number of excellent reasons to produce a book on this increasingly important subject.