[Palliative cancer care is an important part of urology. A study of the last year of life of patients who died because of urologic cancer].

A total of 330 in-patient episodes at the urology ward, with a mean duration of 9.8 days, were registered in a study of 100 patients who died from urological cancer. Twelve patients spent more than two months of their last year of life at the urology ward.