Advanced cancer : pain and quality of life
An estimated 166,400 new cases of cancer occur in Canada in 2008. Bone metastases unfortunately remain a common site of recurrence, with breast and prostate cancer patients representing a substantial proportion of this population. Metastatic bone disease is associated with significant morbidity and...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers ,
c2010
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| Series: | Health and human development
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Psychodynamic pain management for cancer patients
- 2. Improving cancer pain management in the home
- 3. Registered nurse awareness of and practice related to cancer pain
- 4. The relationship factors between radiation oncologists and hospice professionals that influence cancer pain palliation
- 5. Bisphosphonates in combination with radiotherapy for the treatment of bone metastases
- 6. Are baseline ESAS symptoms related to pain response in patients treated with palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases?
- 7. Improvement of symptoms following palliative radiation for bone metastases
- 8. Pain flare following palliative radiotherapy for symptomatic bone metastases
- 9. Exploring the optimal definitions of partial response and pain progression in patients receiving radiation treatment for painful bone metastases
- 10. Post procedure radiation therapy after kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty/cementoplasty for bony metastatic disease
- 11. Skeletal related events in patients with metastatic bone disease
- 12. A critical discussion of symptom clusters in metastatic cancer
- 13. Meaningful change in pain scores in the treatment of bone metastases
- 14. Multidisciplinary approach to metastatic bone disease
- 15. Gender difference in patients with advanced cancer
- 16. Is it possible to predict the survival of patients with advanced metastatic cancer?
- 17. Projected referral for an out-patient palliative radiotherapy clinic
- 18. Utilization of performance scales in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic
- 19. Can we measure quality of life for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)?
- 20. The European Organization for Research & Treatment of Cancer Quality-of-Life Group Bone Metastases Module (EORTC QLQ-BM22) questionnaire
- 21. Quality of life issues in patients with bone metastases
- 22. Bone metastases quality of life instrument tool
- 23. Surgical stabilization of severely destructive upper cervical lytic bone metastases
- 24. Simple bracing for the relief of intractable pain
- 25. Cemented hemiarthroplasty, percutaneous acetabular cementoplasty and post operative radiation for a high risk lesion of the hip
- 26. Remineralization of an impending fracture from an osteolytic metastasis in a breast cancer patient from palliative radiotherapy and bisphosphonate
- 27. About the editors
- 28. About the Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada
- 29. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human development in Israel
- 30. About the book series "health and human development"