Volume 4, Number 7 (July/August 2006)

Bench to Bedside

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Pathophysiology and Management of Hot Flashes
Shalini Dalal, MD, and Donna S. Zhukovsky, MD, FACP

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

abstract full text 138 kb

 

PEER VIEWPOINT
More Choices, More Questions: Weighing the Options for Treating Hot Flashes
Vered Stearns, MD, Breast Cancer Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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Palliative Percutaneous Drainage in Malignant Biliary Obstruction, Part 2: Mechanisms and Postprocedure Management
Anne M. Covey, MD, and Karen T. Brown, MD

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

abstract full text 235 kb

 

PEER VIEWPOINT
A Safe and Effective Method of Palliation
Kevin O. Clarke, MD, and Lawrence D. Wagman, MD, FACS, Liver Tumor Program, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, California

full text 54 kb

Original Research

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Retrospective Study of the Effect of Skeletal Complications on Total Medical Care Costs in Patients with Bone Metastases of Breast Cancer Seen in Typical Clinical Practice
Thomas Delea, MSIA, James McKiernan, MD, Jane Brandman, BPharm, MS, John Edelsberg, MD, MPH, Jennifer Sung, PharmD, MS, Monika Raut, PhD, and Gerry Oster, PhD

Policy Analysis Inc. (PAI), Brookline, Massachusetts; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Urology, New York, New York; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Oncology, East Hanover, New Jersey; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Health Economics & Outcomes Research, East Hanover, New Jersey; Ortho Biotech, Clinical Affairs LLC, East Bridgewater, New Jersey

abstract full text 207 kb

How We Do It

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Managing Cancer Pain in a 24-Hour Outpatient Cancer Center
Thomas B. Strouse, MD, Felicia Flanagan, RN, OCN, Thomas Kerrihard, MD, Christina Williams, LCSW, and Deane L. Wolcott, MD

Psychosocial Services and Cancer Pain Management Services, Cedars-Sinai Outpatient Cancer Center, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, California; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles; Clinical Systems and Knowledge Management, Aptium Oncology, Los Angeles, California

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Letters to the Editor

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Why Do Oncologists Prescribe—or Not Prescribe—Conventional Chemotherapy to Geriatric Patients With Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer?
Aminah Jatoi, MD, Shauna Hillman, MS, Philip Stella, MD, Kendrith Rowland, MD, Roscoe Morton, MD, and Shaker Dakhil, MD,

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Carle Cancer Center, Urbana, Illinois; Medical Oncology & Hematology AssociatesDes Moines, Iowa; Cancer Center of Kansas, P.A., Wichita, Kansas

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