Definition of Symptomatic treatment Symptomatic treatment:
Therapy that eases the symptoms without addressing the basic
cause of the disease. For example, symptomatic treatment of
advanced lung cancer that has spread (metastasized) beyond the
lung is designed to decrease the pain and other symptoms but not
to eradicate the disease. Symptomatic treatment is also called
palliative treatment. Last Editorial Review: 6/14/2012 Back to
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