life-enhancing therapy

life-enhancing therapy

Clinical medicine Pt management–eg, use of antiretrovirals, narcotics for CA pain, or palliative surgery, intended to improve quality of life without an expectation that life will be significantly extended. See Life-extending therapy.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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