Annals ofPalliative Care Medicine

Volume: 4 - Number: 39 - July 15, 2008

Outstanding

Cachexia-anorexia syndrome

Definition of cancer cachexia: effect of weight loss, reduced food intake, and systemic inflammation on functional status and prognosis

Casos clínicos

An unusual cause of neck pain

\'AAOMP case challenge: pain in the right posterior mandible

Chemotherapy induced neuropathy

Neuronal involvement in cisplatin neuropathy: prospective clinical and neurophysiological studies

Clinical practice guideline in palliative care

Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve the Palliative Care of Pain, Dyspnea, and Depression at the End of Life: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians

September 2007 Update on EORTC Guidelines and Anemia Management with Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents

Endoscopic palliative treatments

Benign complications of expandable metal stents used in the palliation of oesophageal carcinoma: two case reports

Opioids

Clinical Experience with Transdermal and Orally Administered Opioids in Palliative Care Patients—A Retrospective Study

Opiate Therapy in Chronic Cough

Plasma Testosterone and Sexual Function in Men Receiving Buprenorphine Maintenance for Opioid Dependence

Endocrine Consequences of Long-Term Intrathecal Administration of Opioids

Pain

Management of Chronic Pain

Palliative Care in Non-Malignant Disease

Differences in Health Care Utilization at the End of Life Among Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Patients With Lung Cancer

Association of Depression and Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences in Patients With COPD

ABC of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Primary care and palliative care

Palliative Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Prognostic assessment

Prognostic Factors in Advanced Cancer Patients: Evidence-Based Clinical Recommendations—A Study by the Steering Committee of the European Association for Palliative Care

Quality of Life

Measuring Patient-Oriented Outcomes in Palliative Care: Functionality and Quality of Life

Controlled Study of Fatigue, Quality of Life, and Somatic and Mental Morbidity in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Survivors: How Lucky Are the Lucky Ones?

Symptom Control

Prevalence and Predictors of Symptoms in the Terminal Stage of Lung Cancer: A Community Study