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Osteoclastic bone resorption.
Treatments for painful osseous metastases may not only diminish pain, but also may improve quality of life and independence/mobility, and reduce skeletal morbidity, potential pathologic fractures, spinal cord compression, and other "skeletal-related events".
Classification of cancer pain.
Satisfactory control of the cancer pain remains the single most important element inpalliative care, as failure of pain relief is a major threat to the quality of life. Inadequate classification and assessment would unavoidably lead to inappropriate and impractical treatment of cancer pain, which has been a striking challenge in cancer clinical practice for the past several decades.
Two different types of breakthrough pains (BTPs) and their "matching" opioid treatment.
Opioids are potent broad-spectrum analgesics useful to treat a variety of painful conditions. Opioids have been classified by many different categorizations (e.g. natural, semisynthetic,synthetic). One classification that may be useful in terms of selecting specific opioid agentsis based on the pharmacokinetic characteristics of the various opioid formulations (e.g. long-acting opioids, short-acting opioids, and rapid onset opioids).
Schematic representation of the mechanisms of stem cells involved in heart repair.
The engraftment of stem cells in damaged myocardium elicits the migration of stemcells into the injured sites. In response to environmental stimuli, stem cells differentiate into cardiac muscle and release soluble autocrine/paracrine factors involved in stem cells renewal and myocardial protection/neovascularization respectively.

Editorials

High symptom burden in children with cancer and high parental satisfaction: why the disconnect?	PDF HTML
Elisha Waldman, Joanne Wolfe	54-55

Optimizing transcatheter therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma: invited editorial regarding “Roles played by chemolipiodolization and embolization in chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: single-blind, randomized trial”	PDF HTML
Matthew Kogut, Karim Valji	56-58

Original Articles

Quality of life and symptom prevalence in children with cancer in Lebanon: the perspective of parents	PDF HTML
Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Knar Sagherian, Hani Tamim	59-70

Skin toxicity after palliative chemotherapy containing pegylated liposomal doxorubicin for ovarian cancer patients	PDF HTML
Elzbieta Nowara, Joanna Huszno	71-75

Assessing psychosocial distress: a pain audit at IRCH-AIIMS	PDF HTML
Sushma Bhatnagar, Dwaipayan Banerjee, Saurabh Joshi, Rahul Gupta	76-84

Adverse reactions and their management in the treatment of malignant tumors using cytokine-induced killer cells	PDF HTML
Chao-Xian Yan, Hua-Man Zhang, Rui Chen, Jin-Ping Tang, Tao-Mei Yang, Lu-Ping Xie	85-89

Perspectives

The reimbursement system is not the dominant factor influencing reluctance to perform single-fraction radiotherapy for painful bone metastases	PDF HTML
Naoki Nakamura, Naoto Shikama	90-91

Radiotherapy in palliative treatment of metastatic NSCLC: not all one and the same	PDF HTML
Sara Ramella, Rolando Maria D’Angelillo	92-94

Helping patients articulate end-of-life wishes: a target for interprofessional participation	PDF HTML
Jennifer L. Kirwin, Roger A. Edwards	95-97

Promotion of case management with coordinated care for fatigued patients with advanced cancer	PDF HTML
Jaw-Shiun Tsai, Ching-Yu Chen	98-100

The generalizability paradox within palliative care clinical trials	PDF HTML
Arif H. Kamal, Jeffrey M. Peppercorn	101-104

Commentary

Commentary on children’s palliative care	PDF HTML
Julia Downing, Joan Marston	105-107

Review Article

Assessment and treatment of cancer pain: from Western to Eastern

Dongrong Situ, Jian Wang, Wenlong Shao, Zhi-Hua Zhu

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Advances in the use of opioids in treating neuropathic cancer pain

Xiaomei Li, Yanjuan Dong, Huili Li, Su Wang, Duanqi Liu

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Rapid onset opioids in palliative medicine

Howard S. Smith

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Painful boney metastases

Howard S. Smith

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Perspective

Palliative radiotherapy for painful bone metastases: short-course or long-course?

Yu-jia Zhu

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Editorial

Cancer pain management: What should be done to improve effectiveness?

Winnie K.W. So

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Introduction to the inaugural issue of Annals of Palliative Medicine

Howard S. Smith, Zhi-hua Zhu

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Opioid-induced hyperalgesia: What to do when it occurs?

Stephan A. Schug

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Original Articles

Palliative concurrent chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced and metastatic esophageal cancer patients with dysphagia
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Annals of Palliative Medicine’ conferences attending information in 2013

The Editorial team of Annals of Palliative Medicine will attend ASCO in Chicago at June, ASTRO in Atlanta at September and AHA in Dallas at November in 2013.

Osteoclastic bone resorption.

Classification of cancer pain.

Two different types of breakthrough pains (BTPs) and their "matching" opioid treatment.

Schematic representation of the mechanisms of stem cells involved in heart repair.

Editorials

Original Articles

Perspectives

Commentary

Review Article

Perspective

Editorial

Original Articles