To investigate the prognostic value of quality of life (QOL) relative to tumour marker carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9, and the role of CA 19-9 in estimating palliation in patients with advanced ...

End-of-life aspects, the corresponding terminology, and the relevance of palliation in advanced cancer are often not considered in publications on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This is the ...

2 The concept of locally advanced “incurable” disease is culturally as well as medically defined. Symptoms that may warrant palliation range from those clearly caused by intrathoracic tumor (such as ...

Purpose. The successful use of inhaled morphine to relieve dyspnea in a patient with end-stage cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is described. Dyspnea, the sensation of breathlessness or labored ...

Quality of life and cancer pain: satisfaction and side effects with transdermal fentanyl versus oral morphine. Patients with painful bone metastases secondary to a variety of primary malignancies were ...

If arranged properly, sending a dying patient home can be a win–win solution: it provides a dying patient a means of palliation without using county or emergency Medicaid funding. At first ...

The overall objective of this CRP aims at evaluating the biological safety and clinical efficacy of 177Lu-EDTMP for bone pain palliation in metastatie prostate cancer in a Phase I and Phase II ...

A 66-year-old man with a history of metastatic rectal carcinoma was admitted due to fecaluria, increasing constipation, and abdominal pain. A computed tomographic (CT) scan with contrast enema ...

Palliative care consultant Dr Andrew Murray outlines strategies for managing common symptoms – other than pain – in the dying patient Many patients experience distressing symptoms other than pain at ...

Evidence-based recommendations on radiofrequency ablation for palliation of painful spinal metastases. This involves inserting a needle-like probe containing an electrode into the spinal metastases.

Evidence-based recommendations on radiofrequency ablation for palliation of painful spinal metastases. This involves inserting a needle-like probe containing an electrode into the spinal metastases.