Annals ofPalliative Care Medicine

Volume: 3 - Number: 29 - September 15, 2007

Outstanding

Local Anesthetics for Breakthrough Pain in Patients Receiving Intrathecal Treatment for Cancer Pain Management

Clinical Factors Associated with Suicidality in Cancer Patients

Prophylactic Treatment of Mycotic Mucositis in Radiotherapy of Patients with Head and Neck Cancers

Connections with death

Access to palliative care

Inequity in the provision of and access to palliative care for cancer patients. Results from the Italian survey of the dying of cancer (ISDOC)

Cachexia/Anorexia Syndrome

Weight loss and elevated gluconeogenesis from alanine in lung cancer patients

Plasma arginine concentrations are reduced in cancer patients: evidence for arginine deficiency?

Cases Reports

Atypical Bone Metastasis and Radiation Changes in a Colon Cancer: a Case Report and a Review of the Literature

End of life

Hospitalisations at the end of life: using a sentinel surveillance network to study hospital use and associated patient, disease and healthcare factors

Endoscopic palliative treatments

Self-expandable Metallic Stents for Patients with Recurrent Esophageal Carcinoma After Failure of Primary Chemoradiotherapy

Investigational Article

Prognostic factors associated with the survival of oral and pharyngeal carcinoma in Taiwan

A Multicenter and Open Label Clinical Trial of Zoledronic Acid 4 mg in Patients with Hypercalcemia of Malignancy

Clinicopathologic Features of Asymptomatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma Patients in Korea

Opioids

Intranasal Delivery of Morphine

Effects of Infusion Rate of Intravenously Administered Morphine on Physiological, Psychomotor, and Self-Reported Measures in Humans

Subjective, Psychomotor, and Physiological Effects of Cumulative Doses of Opioid µ Agonists in Healthy Volunteers

Pain

Local Anesthetics for Breakthrough Pain in Patients Receiving Intrathecal Treatment for Cancer Pain Management

Palliative radiotherapy

Efficacy of Chemoradiotherapy on Pain Relief in Patients with Intrapelvic Recurrence of Rectal Cancer

Pilot Study of Local Radiotherapy for Portal Vein Tumor Thrombus in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Psiquiatrics and psicology

Clinical Factors Associated with Suicidality in Cancer Patients

Suicidal Ideation in Cancer Patients with Major Depression

Quality of Life

Factors associated with quality of life of outpatients with breast cancer and gynecologic cancers and their family caregivers: a controlled study

Skin and mucosaes care

Prophylactic Treatment of Mycotic Mucositis in Radiotherapy of Patients with Head and Neck Cancers

Spirituality

Connections with death