Palliative Care & Pain Management: Related News

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Video May Help Terminal Patients Make CPR Choice

Surgical fellow Andrew Shuman commented on a study that used a video to help terminally ill cancer patients make decisions about end-of-life care.

Reuters

April 25, 2013

Scoring System May Tell the Dying How Long They Have to Live

Paul Glare, MD, Chief of the Pain and Palliative Care Service, was interviewed about an editorial he wrote to accompany a study published in the British Medical Journal that found a new scoring system might be able to tell patients in the final stages of cancer how much time they have left so they can prepare for their passing. Dr. Glare was also quoted in the Huffington Post.

HealthDay News

August 25, 2011

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New Form of Psychotherapy Might Ease Emotional Suffering of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

Memorial Sloan-Kettering researchers have found that people in the late stages of cancer might benefit from meaning-centered psychotherapy, a treatment aimed at helping people sustain a sense of meaning and purpose.

April 30, 2012

Palliative Care: Easing Pain and Providing Relief for Those with Advanced Cancer

While the main goal of medicine is to cure or control disease, there is an increasing need for attention and resources to be directed to addressing issues such as pain and symptom relief — conditions directly related to a patient’s quality of life during treatment. More than twenty-five years ago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was the first cancer hospital to create a pain and palliative care service. Today, the service continues to work to relieve, or palliate, the pain and distress that may be experienced by cancer patients — both those in active, curative treatment and those with advanced, late-stage cancers.

June 1, 2009

cancer (KAN-ser)

A term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues. Cancer cells can also spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. There are several main types of cancer. Carcinoma is a cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs. Sarcoma is a cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. Leukemia is a cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood. Lymphoma and multiple myeloma are cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system. Central nervous system cancers are cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord. Also called malignancy.