Volume 1, Number 4 (November/December 2003)

Bench to Bedside

235

Management of Thrombosis in the Cancer Patient
Nancy Andrea, MD, and Jack Ansell, MD

Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

With peer viewpoints by David Green, MD, PhD, and Anaadriana Zakarija, MD, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, and Murray M. Bern, MD, The Cancer Center of Boston, New England Baptist Hospital, and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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Erythropoietic Agents in the Management of Cancer Patients: Part 1. Anemia, Quality of Life, and Possible Effects on Survival
Robert E. Smith, Jr., MD

South Carolina Cancer Center and South Carolina Oncology Associates, Columbia, South Carolina

With a peer viewpoint by Matti S. Aapro, MD, Institut Multidisciplinaire d'Oncologie, Genolier, Switzerland

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Incidence and Management of Hot Flashes in Prostate Cancer
Anna-Clara Spetz, MD, PhD, Eva-Lena Zetterlund, MD, Eberhard Varenhorst, MD, PhD, and Mats Hammar, MD, PhD

University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

With peer viewpoints by Jane L. Hudak, RN, DNSc, Kimberly A. Peay, MS, CRNP-Family, and Thomas A. Esther, PA-C, Center for Prostate Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, and Robert Dreicer, MD, FACP, Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

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Original Research

274

Glutamine Does Not Prevent Paclitaxel-Associated Myalgias and Arthralgias
Stacy D. Jacobson, MD, Charles L. Loprinzi, MD, Jeff A. Sloan, PhD, John L. Wilke, BSN, Paul J. Novotny, MS, Scott H. Okuno, MD, Aminah Jatoi, MD, and Timothy J. Moynihan, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

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Editorial

233

Prevention of Paclitaxel-Associated Arthralgias and Myalgias
Maurie Markman, MD

Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

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Commentary

279

Is There Evidence for Earlier Intervention in Cancer-Associated Weight Loss?
Neil MacDonald, CM, MD, FRCP(C), FRCP(Edin)

McGill Cancer Nutrition and Rehabilitation Programme, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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How We Do It

287

Ketamine in the Treatment of Refractory Cancer Pain: Case Report, Rationale, and Methodology
Neal E. Slatkin, MD, and Michelle Rhiner, MSN, RN, NP

Department of Supportive Care, Pain and Palliative Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California

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Clinical Trials

294

Clinical Trials in Supportive Care
Current clinical trials in the management of cancer cachexia and anorexia.

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Observations

245

Promising New Approaches to Managing Mucositis

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Reader Services

296

2003 Annual Index

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