Advanced Cancer, Pain & Quality of Life

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Foreword; Introduction: Advanced cancer. Pain & quality of life; Psychodynamic pain management for cancer patients; Improving cancer pain management in the home; Registered nurse awareness of & practice related to cancer pain; The relationship factors between radiation oncologists & hospice professionals that influence cancer pain palliation; (Bisphosphonates in combination with radiotherapy for the treatment of bone metastases; Are baseline ESAS symptoms related to pain response in patients treated with palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases?; Improvement of symptoms following palliative radiation for bone metastases; Pain flare following palliative radiotherapy for symptomatic bone metastases; Exploring the optimal definitions of partial response & pain progression in patients receiving radiation treatment for painful bone metastases; Post procedure radiation therapy after kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty/cementoplasty for bony metastatic disease; Skeletal related events in patients with metastatic bone disease; A critical discussion of symptom clusters in metastatic cancer; Meaningful change in pain scores in the treatment of bone metastases; Multidisciplinary approach to metastatic bone disease; Gender difference in patients with advanced cancer; Is it possible to predict the survival of patients with advanced metastatic cancer?; Projected referral for an out-patient palliative radiotherapy clinic; Utilization of performance scales in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic; Can we measure quality of life for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)?; The European Organization for Research & Treatment of Cancer Quality-of-Life Group Bone Metastases Module (EORTC QLQ-BM22) questionnaire; Quality of life issues in patients with bone metastases; Bone metastases quality of life instrument tool; Surgical stabilization of severely destructive upper cervical lytic bone metastases; Simple bracing for the relief of intractable pain; Cemented hemiarthroplasty, percutaneous acetabular cementoplasty & post operative radiation for a high risk lesion of the hip; About the editors; About the Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada; About the National Institute of Child Health & Human development in Israel; About the book series health & human development; Index.