Table of Contents
Special Issue: Advanced cancer and pain
Edited by Edward Chow, Richard Rosenbluth, Patricia Schofield and Joav Merrick
EDITORIAL
Advanced cancer and pain
Edward Chow, Patricia Schofield, Richard Rosenbluth, and Joav Merrick
REVIEW ARTICLES
Psychodynamic pain management for cancer patients
Frederick B Levenson, Micah D Levenson, Søren Ventegodt, and Joav Merrick
The relationship factors between radiation oncologists and hospice professionals that influence cancer pain palliation
Stephen T Lutz
Symptom clusters in metastatic cancer: A critical appraisal
Harleen Bedi, Amanda Hird, Sarah Campos, and Edward Chow
Quality of life measures used in radiation therapy trials for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC): A literature review
Gunita Mitera, Nadil Zeiadin, Arjun Sahgal, Joel Finkelstein, Edward Chow, and Andrew Loblaw
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Improving cancer pain management in the home
April Hazard Vallerand, Susan M Hasenau, and Thomas Templin
An investigation into registered nurse awareness of and practice related to cancer pain
Johanna Elizabeth Maree
Gender difference in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scores in patients with advanced cancer
Harleen Bedi, Roseanna Presutti, Amanda Hird, Sarah Campos, Liying Zhang, Gunita Mitera, Emily Sinclair, Elizabeth Barnes, May Tsao, Arjun Sahgal, Cyril Danjoux, Carlo DeAngelis, and Edward Chow, MBBS
Determining the accuracy of health care professionals in predicting the survival of patients with advanced metastatic cancer
Edward Chow, George Hruby, Kristin Harris, Katherine Enright, Emily Sinclair, and Grace Chan
Projected referral for health care services in an out-patient palliative radiotherapy clinic
Roseanna Presutti, Liying Zhang, May Tsao, Elizabeth A Barnes, Cyril Danjoux, Arjun Sahgal, Gunita Mitera, Emily Sinclair, and Edward Chow
The palliative performance scale: Examining its correlation to Karnofsky performance scale in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic
Sarah Campos, Liying Zhang, Emily Sinclair, May Tsao, Elizabeth A Barnes, Cyril Danjoux, Arjun Sahgal, Philiz Goh, Shaelyn Culleton, Gunita Mitera, and Edward Chow