Hematology

Palliation

Questions discussed in this category

What screening tools or signs do you use to predict if a cancer patient is near end-of-life?

There is conflicting data on whether the "surprise question" performs adequately enough. Do you use this or other screening tools alone, or in c...

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How can oncologists be more collaborative with palliative care physicians?

How can these interactions be improved?

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Does radiation improve bone health and allow for healing of a pathological fracture in a patient with multiple myeloma refusing surgery?

What is the best evidence to support or refute this?

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What is the recommended initial treatment for spinal cord compression due to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (e.g. diffuse large B-cell lymphoma)?

When treating with radiation therapy, what dose-fractionation do you typically utilize?

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Papers discussed in this category

Turk J Med Sci,

The impact of one fraction of 8 Gy radiotherapy in palliative treatment of multiple myeloma patients with painful bone destructions.

Radiat Oncol, 2015-03-28

Effects of Radiotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma: a retrospective analysis of a Single Institution.

Journal of palliative medicine, 2012-11

Conceptual models for integrating palliative care at cancer centers.

Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2016-03

Integrating palliative care into the trajectory of cancer care.

Cancer, 2015-03-15

Bedside clinical signs associated with impending death in patients with advanced cancer: preliminary findings of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study.

Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)), 2001

How accurate are physicians' clinical predictions of survival and the available prognostic tools in estimating survival times in terminally ill cancer patients? A systematic review.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2002 Aug 01

A predictive model for survival in metastatic cancer patients attending an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic.

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