Isabelle Fromantin, Elodie Labedade, Charlotte Van Coppenolle
{"title":"[Nursing management of malignant wounds].","authors":"Isabelle Fromantin, Elodie Labedade, Charlotte Van Coppenolle","doi":"10.1016/j.bulcan.2025.01.008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Malignant wounds affect 5 to 10% of patients with metastatic cancer. The management of symptoms (hemorrhage, odors, exudates, pain) linked to the presence of these lesions is sometimes complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach, where everyone acts in complementarity. Local solutions can be proposed for each local symptom. The nurse must strive to develop for each patient a wound care protocol that is always as simple as possible and allows for home care-hospital continuity. Care protocols must be frequently readjusted based on wound fluctuations. Nursing care is not limited to wound care, it includes monitoring the risks and the global condition of the patient, in particular the nutritional state and the functional and psychological consequences linked to the presence of the malignant wound.</p>","PeriodicalId":93917,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin du cancer","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin du cancer","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bulcan.2025.01.008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Malignant wounds affect 5 to 10% of patients with metastatic cancer. The management of symptoms (hemorrhage, odors, exudates, pain) linked to the presence of these lesions is sometimes complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach, where everyone acts in complementarity. Local solutions can be proposed for each local symptom. The nurse must strive to develop for each patient a wound care protocol that is always as simple as possible and allows for home care-hospital continuity. Care protocols must be frequently readjusted based on wound fluctuations. Nursing care is not limited to wound care, it includes monitoring the risks and the global condition of the patient, in particular the nutritional state and the functional and psychological consequences linked to the presence of the malignant wound.