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One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process. Patients with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses are at increased risk for the development of major psychiatric complications, and have an enormous burden of both physical and psychological symptoms. Concepts of adequate palliative care must be expanded beyond the current focus on pain and physical symptom control to include the psychiatric, psychosocial, existential, and spiritual aspects of care. T

Palliative treatment --- Terminal care. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death --- Palliation (Medical care) --- Palliative care --- Palliative medicine --- Therapeutics --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Care and treatment --- Medical care