Annals ofPalliative Care Medicine

Volume: 1 - Number: 4 - August 15, 2005

Outstanding

Pharmacologic Treatment of Cancer Pain

Methadone Versus Morphine As a First-Line Strong Opioid for Cancer Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind Study

Individualized Patient Education and Coaching to Improve Pain Control Among Cancer Outpatients

Itch: scratching more than the surface

Alternative medicine

Analgesic Effect of Auricular Acupuncture for Cancer Pain: A Randomized, Blinded, Controlled Trial

Editorial

Cancer as a Risk Factor for Dementia: A House Built on Shifting Sand

Myth-Busters: Telling the True Story of Breast Cancer Survivorship

End of life

Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the ICU

Pain

Pharmacologic Treatment of Cancer Pain

Methadone Versus Morphine As a First-Line Strong Opioid for Cancer Pain: A Randomized, Double-Blind Study

Individualized Patient Education and Coaching to Improve Pain Control Among Cancer Outpatients

Feasibility of Quantitative Pain Assessment in Outpatient Oncology Practice

Empirical Comparison of Commonly Used Measures to Evaluate Pain Treatment in Cancer Patients With Chronic Pain

Pain and Quality of Life After Treatment in Patients With Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer

Implementing Guidelines for Cancer Pain Management: Results of a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

'Clinical experience with oral methadone administration in the treatment of pain in 196 advanced cancer patients

Acetaminophen in Cancer Pain

Randomized Clinical Trial of an Implantable Drug Delivery System Compared With Comprehensive Medical Management for Refractory Cancer Pain: Impact on Pain, Drug-Related Toxicity, and Survival

Dose-titration, multicenter study of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for the treatment of breakthrough pain in cancer patients using transdermal fentanyl for persistent pain

Switching From Morphine to Methadone to Improve Analgesia and Tolerability in Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study

Palliative Chemotherapy

Combined liver radiation and chemotherapy for palliation of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer

Does Palliative Chemotherapy Palliate? Evaluation of Expectations, Outcomes, and Costs in Women Receiving Chemotherapy for Advanced Ovarian Cancer

Palliative radiotherapy

Palliative Single-Fraction Radiation Therapy: How Much More Evidence Is Needed?

Single- Versus Multiple-Fraction Radiotherapy in Patients With Painful Bone Metastases: Cost–Utility Analysis Based on a Randomized Trial

Press Release: Shorter Course of Radiotherapy Effective for Palliation of Painful Bone Metastases

Variation in Delivery of Palliative Radiotherapy to Persons Dying of Cancer in Nova Scotia, 1994 to 1998

Communication Between Primary Care Physicians and Radiation Oncologists Regarding Patients With Cancer Treated With Palliative Radiotherapy

Pediatric palliative care

Children are often undertreated for pain

Children and young people who die from cancer: epidemiology and place of death in England (1995-9)

Psiquiatrics and psicology

Pain and depression in patients with newly diagnosed pancreas cancer

Quality of Life

Physical and Psychological Morbidity After Axillary Lymph Node Dissection for Breast Cancer

Review

Methodologic issues in effectiveness research on palliative cancer care: a systematic review

Skin and mucosae care

Itch: scratching more than the surface

Opiate antagonist therapy for the pruritus of cholestasis: the avoidance of opioid withdrawal-like reactions