**3. Conclusion**

The following are the main principles of surgical palliative care in pediatric cancer patients:


Success in surgical palliative care for oncological children includes assisting the child and their families in living as well as possible and then, at the end of life, helping the patient in dying quietly.

*"Death isn't a medical failure, it's a biological certainty. But poorly managed death IS a medical failure."* (Dr. Kathryn Mannix).
