REVIEW ARTICLE Jamie H. Von Roenn, Jennifer Teme;ONCOLOGY Vol. 25 No. 13 This article will review the overlap between palliative care and oncology and discuss the available evidence that true integration of palliative and oncology care provides patients with optimal oncology care.
REVIEW ARTICLE Kristopher Dennis, S. Lawrence Librach, Edward Chow; ONCOLOGY Vol. 25 No. 13 This article highlights the importance of palliative cancer care and the palliative care specialist to patients with incurable cancer.
REVIEW ARTICLE Erin R. Alesi, Devon Fletcher, Cameron Muir, et al;ONCOLOGY Vol. 25 No. 13 This article addresses the practical application of palliative care (PC) in the outpatient oncology setting.
REVIEW ARTICLE Charles F. von Gunten, Stephen Lutz, Frank D. Ferris;ONCOLOGY Vol. 25 No. 13 In this article, prognostic data are summarized and a suggested approach for discussing hospice enrollment with patients is presented.
Palliative radiotherapy is an effective means of alleviating pain and improving overall quality of life in elderly patients with bone metastases, according to a new study. More »
Optimal supportive care for patients with pancreatic cancer is essential. Putting these interventions into practice requires that oncologists and oncology teams incorporate innovations at both the individual and the system level. More »
FDA approval of palliative chemotherapy is largely based on disease-free and overall survival, quality of life, and symptom reduction; the latter should be routinely measured by the treating oncologist. Physician assessments of symptoms underreport symptom severity compared to patient-reported symptom assessments. More »
In this article, we present or review the evidence for providing palliative care concurrently with oncologic care, guideline-based recommendations for screening and incorporation of palliative care, and a case-based discussion to demonstrate palliative care across the continuum of cancer care. More »
Integrating palliative care from the time of diagnosis can support both patients and families through difficult periods and prepare them for the journey ahead. It can improve quality of life while curtailing healthcare spending and increasing satisfaction with oncology care. More »
Optimal supportivecare for patients with pancreatic cancer is essential. Putting these interventions into practice requires that oncologists and oncology teams incorporate innovations at both the individual and the system level.
kristine.crane at oup.com. By all accounts, the past several years has seen palliativecare leap into the nation s health care headlines and perhaps its consciousness as never before. ... New England Journal of Medicine. showing that terminal lung cancer
Medical care during life's final stages is often poorly coordinated and inattentive to patient preferences, typically owing to a failure to ascertain each individual's goals. End-of-life care also consumes substantial health care dollars. For example, 30% of Medicare resources are expended on the 5% of beneficiaries who die each year, and one-third of costs in life's last year is accounted for in life's last month. Research indicates that physicians and health care professio
and coordinating the care recommended by different health care providers ( ie, primary care practitioners, oncologists, surgeons, and palliativecare clinicians who are specialized in addressing supportive needs as death approaches). ... Supportive and
By the time cancer patients undergoing treatment show clinical signs of cachexia, the loss of fat and skeletal muscle is already advanced. Chinese respiratory specialists have a proposed intervention, and a review says to look beyond oncology to improve care for this problem.
Primary Care Can't Thrive Without Nurse Practitioners Courtney H. Lyder, ND, May 17, 2013 With a projected shortfall of primary-care physicians, it's time for alternate solutions to patient care. Nurse practitioners are one logical remedy.
