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Cervical cancer patients who are terminally ill may benefit from hospice care. Hospice care focuses on caring, not curing. Hospice services typically include psychological and spiritual guidance, pain and symptom management, short–term inpatient services when pain and symptoms become severe and bereavement care and counseling to surviving family members. The goal of treatment is to make the patient as comfortable as possible during the final days of his or her life. Hospice may be provided when a patient no longer responds to treatment and has a life expectancy of six months or less. Hospice care can be provided in the patient's home, a hospital, independently owned home or nursing facility. Hospices are equipped with trained professionals, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers and members of the clergy.
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