Palliative care in multiple sclerosis Review article
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that mainly affects young adults and leads to long-term consequences. The outcomes of the nervous system damage do not only cause physical disability but also affect patients’ mental and cognitive function. Moreover, they severely decrease the quality of patients’ life. Despite great progress in immunomodulatory treatment, the number of patients requiring continuous care and being unable to live independently is constantly growing. They should all be provided with palliative care, which in Poland is mainly reserved for oncological patients and rarely includes other groups. The Polish legal system does not provide guaranteed benefits for people with MS requiring palliative and hospice care. Therefore, it is necessary to take action aimed at supporting the most disabled patients who are deprived of the modifying treatment and are only left with symptomatic treatment.
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