Volume 4, Number 5 (May 2006)

Bench to Bedside

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The Pathogenesis of Constipation
Nigel P. Sykes, MA, BM, BCh, FRCP, FRCGP

St. Christopher’s Hospice and King’s College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

abstract full text 119 kb

 

PEER VIEWPOINTS
Strategies to Manage Constipation
Jay Thomas, MD, PhD, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care and University of California, San Diego

full text 57 kb

 

Constipation—Not a Mundane Symptom
Ruth L. Lagman, MD, MPH, The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio

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Update on the Indications for Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy
Carlos A. Garcia-Etienne, MD, and Patrick I. Borgen, MD

Breast Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

abstract full text 181 kb

 

PEER VIEWPOINTS
The Dual Role of Nipple Preservation
Diane Opatt, MD, and Monica Morrow, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

full text 59 kb

 

Quality of Life With Skin-Sparing Mastectomy: Sensation in the Nipple-Areola Complex
Christine Laronga, MD, Comprehensive Breast Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida

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Original Research

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Clinical Benefits of Once-Weekly Epoetin Alfa in Anemic Patients With Colorectal Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
Edward Chu, MD, Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, and Patrick Lefebvre, MA

Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut; School of Medicine, Departmentof Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Groupe d’Analyse, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Effect of Pilocarpine During Radiation Therapy: Results of RTOG 97-09, a Phase III Randomized Study in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Charles Scarantino, MD, PhD, Francis LeVeque, DDS, R. Suzanne Swann, PhD, Robert White, MD, Alan Schulsinger, MD, D. Ian Hodson, MD, Ruby Meredith, MD, PhD, Robert Foote, MD, David Brachman, MD, and Nancy Lee, MD

Rex Cancer Center, Raleigh, North Carolina; Wayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan; Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cancer Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn; Juravinski Cancer Centre and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham; Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; St. Joseph’s Hospital/Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

abstract full text 139 kb

How We Do It

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The SERIES Clinic: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Management of Toxicities of EGFR Inhibitors
Mario E. Lacouture, MD, Surendra Basti, MD, Jyoti Patel, MD, and Al Benson III, MD, FACP

Department of Dermatology, Department of Ophthalmology, and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

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Letter to the Editor

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Non-Pharmacologic Cancer Pain Management: A Customized Multidensity Foam Seating Cushion
Jason M. Swoger, MD, MPH, Steven I. Reger PhD, CP, and Declan Walsh, MSc, FACP

Departments of Internal Medicine and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio

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