HOPE INTERVENTION PROGRAM

Hope Intervention Program

Hope Intervention Program

Introduction

Hope is a universally valued, central and enduring primal in cancer biology, diagnosis and treatment, the latter which human emotion that has sustained and uplifted humankind can cost up to one billion United States (US) dollars tofrom the dawn of time.

Hope is essential in the face of terminal cancer. Generally in Western societies, patients and their families prefer their doctor to engage them in transparent, realistic, authoritative, empathic and open communication about the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. With the exponential increase in information about cancer and the many permutations in cancer treatment, rational and otherwise, the doctor-patient relationship is even more critical in planning the best treatment strategy and also in rendering both particular and general hope in the patient's war against cancer.

Discussion

Overall, the majority of drugs tested against cancer have failed to reach the market, and those that have, only provide modest bene?ts, several major therapeutic breakthroughs notwithstanding. Commoditised medicalisation of the dying process ingrained into the contemporary consciousness can potentially create unrealistic or false hope, therapeutic nihilism and a drain on the resources of both the patient and society (Herth, 2001). These factors can also detract from the dignity of dying as an acceptable natural process. Hope cannot be con?ned only to focusing merely on the existential dimension of improving survival through technological intervention. Psychosocial and, where appropriate, spiritual interventions and support also play major roles in relieving suffering and providing hope to the patient. Hope cannot be a victim of misinformation from self-interested external parties, nor be an obsession with just buying promises of extending survival time without sufficient regard for quality of life and achieving a good death. once-fatal disease, childhood leukaemia is now curable in over 80% of stricken children (Antoni et al., 2001).

Many more cancer drugs fail to give any real improvements. Hope, in the ?ght against cancer, is oxygen to live on Cancer treatment expenditure has escalated dramatically.meaningfully. Oncologists must respect and actively engage In 2005, the total cost of cancer care in the US was $209.9in the patients' desire for hope in the face of a disease that billion2 and health insurance family coverage premiums evokes great helplessness, and patients are commonly increased by 73% between 2000 and 2005.4 Medical bills gripped more by a fear of dying than the fear of death itself account for over half of bankruptcy ?lings in the US (Affleck ...