Bioethics
Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia
When is physician assisted suicide or euthanasia acceptable?
Withholding artificial feeding from the severely demented: merciful or immoral? Contrasts between secular and Jewish perspectives
Withholding life prolonging treatment, and self deception
Cachexia-Anorexia Syndrome
Reversal of Cancer Anorexia by Blockade of Central Melanocortin Receptors in Rats
Role of the Central Melanocortin System in Cachexia
GI symptoms
Randomized Trial of Omeprazole or Ranitidine Versus Placebo in the Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Gastroduodenal Injury
Metastases management
Recurrent spinal epidural metastases: a prospective study with a complete follow up
Zoledronic Acid Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Skeletal Metastases in Patients With Lung Cancer and Other Solid Tumors: A Phase III, Double-Blind, Randomized Trial—The Zoledronic Acid Lung Cancer and Other Solid Tumors Study Group
Pain
Quantitative Bone Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography for Prediction of Pain Relief in Metastatic Bone Disease Treated With Rhenium-186 Etidronate
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
Rapid Switching From Morphine to Methadone in Cancer Patients With Poor Response to Morphine
Palliative care and hematology
Treatment for Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer: Risks and Outcomes
Palliative Chemotherapy
Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial of Mitoxantrone/Prednisone and Clodronate Versus Mitoxantrone/Prednisone and Placebo in Patients With Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer and Pain
Repeated Bone-Targeted Therapy for Hormone-Refractory Prostate Carcinoma: Randomized Phase II Trial With the New, High-Energy Radiopharmaceutical Rhenium-188 Hydroxyethylidenediphosphonate
Palliative endoscopic procedures
Rigid Bronchoscopy and Stenting for Esophageal Cancer Causing Airway Obstruction
Tracheobronchial stenting in the terminal care of cancer patients with central airways obstruction
Palliative surgery
Radical Resection of Rectal Cancer Primary Tumor Provides Effective Local Therapy in Patients With Stage IV Disease
Paraneoplastic syndomes
Recommended diagnostic criteria for paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
Treatment of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes with antineuronal antibodies (Anti-Hu, Anti-Yo) with a combination of immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and methylprednisolone
Quality of Life
Quality of Life in Palliative Cancer Care: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
Quality of life in patients with stable disease after surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy for malignant brain tumour
Review: Respiratory emergencies
Respiratory emergencies
