Vol 6, No 1 (January 20, 2017) - Annals of Palliative Medicine

Message From the Editor-in-Chief

Barriers to nausea management, end of life conversations, early palliative care interventions, and patient education

Charles B. Simone II

PDF Pages: E1-E4 Full Text (4677) Open Access

Editorial

Anticipatory nausea: current landscape and future directions

Soha Ahrari, Ronald Chow, Shannon Goodall, Carlo DeAngelis

PDF Pages: 1-2 Full Text (3847) Open Access

Quality of end-of-life care: how far have we come in addressing the needs of multicultural patients?

Karl A. Lorenz

PDF Pages: 3-5 Full Text (4065) Open Access

Original Article

Palliative care units in lung cancer in the real-world setting: a single institution’s experience and its implications

Eva Katharina Masel, Sophie Schur, Romina Nemecek, Michael Mayrhofer, Patrick Huber, Feroniki Adamidis, Bruno Maehr, Matthias Unseld, Herbert Hans Watzke, Robert Pirker

PDF Pages: 6-13 Full Text (5522) Open Access

Effects of circadian rhythms and treatment times on the response of radiotherapy for painful bone metastases

Stephanie Chan, Liying Zhang, Leigha Rowbottom, Rachel McDonald, Georg A. Bjarnason, May Tsao, Elizabeth Barnes, Cyril Danjoux, Marko Popovic, Henry Lam, Carlo DeAngelis, Edward Chow

PDF Pages: 14-25 Full Text (4959) Open Access

Palliative interventions for hepatocellular carcinoma patients: analysis of the National Cancer Database

Abdulrahman Y. Hammad, Jared R. Robbins, Kiran K. Turaga, Kathleen K. Christians, T. Clark Gamblin, Fabian M. Johnston

PDF Pages: 26-35 Full Text (9877) Open Access

Urinary cytokines/chemokines after magnetic resonance-guided high intensity focused ultrasound for palliative treatment of painful bone metastases

Ahmad Bushehri, Gregory Czarnota, Liying Zhang, Kullervo Hynynen, Yuexi Huang, Michael Chan, William Chu, Kristopher Dennis, Charles Mougenot, Jennifer Coccagna, Arjun Sahgal, Edward Chow, Carlo DeAngelis

PDF Pages: 36-54 Full Text (3353) Open Access

Patterns of care and survival outcomes of palliative radiation for prostate cancer with bone metastases: comparison of ≤5 fractions to ≥10 fractions

David Schreiber, Joseph Safdieh, Daniel J. Becker, David Schwartz

PDF Pages: 55-65 Full Text (4113) Open Access

Review Article

Use of multimedia in patient and caregiver education for cancer pain management: a literature review

Michael Lam, Matthew Choi, Helen R. Lam, Arnav Agarwal, Ronald Chow, Selina Chow, Leigha Rowbottom, Rachel McDonald, Henry Lam, Stephanie Chan, Edward Chow, Blair Henry

PDF Pages: 66-72 Full Text (6138) Open Access