Volume 2, Number 6 (November/December 2004)

Bench to Bedside

467

Dehydration in Cancer Patients: To Treat or Not To Treat
Shalini Dalal, MD, and Eduardo Bruera, MD

Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

With peer viewpoints by Pedro E. Huertas, MD, PhD, and J. Andrew Billings, MD, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, Massachusetts, and Robin L. Fainsinger, MBChB, LMCC, CCFP, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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The Evolving Role of Interventional Pain Management in Oncology
Paul A. Sloan, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington

With peer viewpoints by Perry G. Fine, MD, Pain Research and Management Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Elliot S. Krames, MD, Pacific Pain Treatment Centers, San Francisco, California

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Treating Cancer-Related Hypercalcemia With Gallium Nitrate
Brian Leyland-Jones, MD

Departments of Oncology and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

With peer viewpoints by Harold A. Harvey, MD, and Salah M. Almokadem, MD, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Rasim Gucalp, MD, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York

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How We Do It

523

Management of Cough in Advanced Cancer
Bassam Estfan, MD, and Susan LeGrand, MD, FACP

The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, The Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

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How We Say It

464

It’s Not What They Say; It’s the Way They Say It
Joyce Hislop, RN, OCN

Medical Oncology Associates of Wyoming Valley, Kingston, Pennsylvania

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Observations

488

A Glass of Red Wine a Day May Keep Prostate Cancer Away

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506

Study Finds That Declines in Skills Following Marrow or Stem Cell Transplant Are Temporary

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527

Database Provides Doctors and Patients Unprecedented Access to Clinical Study Information

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Reader Services

529

2004 Annual Index

530

Guide for Authors

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