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'''Patient Selection'''
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Candidates for '''postmortem chemotherapy''' most undergo a rigorous selection process during which they must prove their lack of functional status with an ECOG status of 5 but that still show they are clearly still "a fighter."<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2016/11/hospital-morgue/ Hospital Morgue Morning Rounds Initiated After Family Insists Patient “is a Fighter”]</ref> Patients usually must undergo [[Transthoracic Echocardiogram|transthoracic echocardiogram]] (or [[Amazon Echocardiogram|TTE]]) in order to monitor for and avoid cardiotoxicity as is the case with doxorubicin-based '''postmortem chemotherapy''' regimens.