Reviews & Peer Viewpoints

Patients with advanced lung cancer experience a high symptom burden with great impact upon functional status and quality of... »

Lung cancer accounts for a large percentage of cancer deaths worldwide. In the United States, an estimated 222,520 new... »

Drs. McCannon and Temel have written an interesting review on the management of respiratory symptoms in advanced lung cancer... »

Bone pain due to skeletal metastases constitutes the most common type of cancer-related pain. The management of bone pain... »

Cancer-related bone pain is a significant cause of morbidity and reduces quality of life for patients with bone metastases.... »

In cancer patients, bone metastasis is a common complication, with the highest prevalence among breast and prostate cancer... »

In this edition of the Journal of Supportive Oncology, Loblaw and Mitera have published a succinct review of trials of... »

Recognizing and addressing the psychological distress of patients and their families often falls to the oncologist. We know... »

Kacel and colleagues provide an exhaustive review of bereavement theory and practice.1 However, as a consequence of the... »

Death and dying are ever-present in the practice of oncology. Oncology clinic staff regularly encounter terminally ill... »

Alimentary mucositis is an important complication of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, with significant implications... »

Regimen-related mucosal toxicity (mucositis) is a largely unsolved medical need associated with cancer treatment. Despite... »

Alimentary mucositis is a major acute complication in the clinical setting, occurring in a large percentage of patients... »

Malignant epidural spinal cord compression is a dreaded complication of malignancy. Fortunately, it does not happen very... »

Loblaw and Mitera are to be congratulated for their ongoing efforts to provide systematic guidelines in the palliative... »