Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine

Session I Symptom Control in Palliative Medicine: Standard Management and Clinical Trials I.- Recent Research in Pain and Cachexia in Advanced Cancer and AIDS.- Multidisciplinary Approach to Pain Control.- Malignant Intestinal Obstruction.- Session Summary.- Session II Symptom Control in Palliative Medicine: Standard Management and Clinical Trials II.- The Treatment of Chronic Nausea in Patients with Advanced Cancer.- Therapy of Febrile Neutropenia: An Algorithm for Current Clinical Attitudes Taking into Account Cost Benefit.- Alleviation of Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Cancer: Usefulness of Opioid.- Session Summary.- Session III Depression: A Major Psychological and Emotional Problem.- Depression in Patients with Advanced Cancer.- Depression in HIV-Infected Adults: Newer Concepts.- Euthanasia, Social Policy and Empirical Data.- Session Summary.- Session IV Ethics in Palliative Medicine.- Euthanasia in the Netherlands: A Flat Country on a Slippery Slope?.- Evaluation of Do-Not-Resuscitate Policy in Japan.- Ethical Dilemmas and Advanced Directives in Japan.- Session Summary.- Session V Health Economics in Palliative Medicine.- Health Economics of Palliative Therapy.- Economic Evaluation of Health Care for Chronic Diseases.- Recent Trend and Problems of Health Economics in Japan: Application of Clinical Economics to the Treatment for Cancers and Intractable Diseases.- Session Summary.- Session VI Quality of Life (QOL) Research.- Quality of Life Evaluation in Chronic Illness.- Quality of Life in Palliative Medicine: Current Status and Problems of QOL Research in Japan.- Session Summary.- Session VII Patient Education and Ethics.- Complementary Medicine.- Support with Information, Education and Counselling in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS.- Patients’Perceptions of Palliation in Japan.- Session Summary.- Key Word Index.