Volume 1, Number 3 (September/October 2003)

Bench to Bedside

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Pathogenesis of Cancer Cachexia
Michael J. Tisdale, DSc, PhD

Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

With peer viewpoints by Eduardo Bruera, MD, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and Vickie E. Baracos, PhD, Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

abstract full text 126 kb

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Management of Cancer Pain in Geriatric Patients
Lodovico Balducci, MD

University of South Florida College of Medicine and Senior Adult Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida

With peer viewpoints by Joanne Mortimer, MD, and Matthew Loscalzo, MSW, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, and Roberto Bernabei, MD, Department of Gerontological, Geriatrics and Physiatrists Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

abstract full text 181 kb

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Management of Thalidomide Toxicity
Irene M. Ghobrial, MD, and S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD

Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

With peer viewpoints by Seema Singhal, MD, and Jayesh Mehta, MD, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, and The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, and Christian Meierhofer, MD, The Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

abstract full text 82 kb

Original Research

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Communication and the Patient/Physician Relationship: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Nessa Coyle, PhD, NP, FAAN, and Lois Sculco, MA

Supportive Care Program, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

abstract full text 63 kb

Commentary

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Communication Skills: Myths, Realities, and New Developments
Anthony Back, MD, and Walter Baile, MD

Department of Medicine/Oncology, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washingtom; and Department of Psychiatry, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

full text 26 kb

How We Do It

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Prescribing Methadone, A Unique Analgesic
Paolo L. Manfredi, MD, and Raymond W. Houde, MD

Pain and Palliative Care Service, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

full text 41 kb

Observations

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Preventing Radiation-Induced Cystitis with Hyaluronic Acid

full text 10 kb

Reader Services

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Guide for Authors

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