13 signs in cancer patients can herald impending death. Hundreds of thousands of people die of cancer in Germany every year.
Palliative care specialists believe it is important that doctors recognize the point at which it only takes a few days until death. If a pupillary reflex fails, cancer patients are 17 times more likely to die in the next three days than to survive. If the signs are missing, this does not mean that the patient will survive the next few days. The chance of living a little longer is also very low if one or more characteristics occur.