Early palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

C Zimmermann, N Swami, M Krzyzanowska, B Hannon… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
… care in patients with advanced cancer on … in patients with advanced cancer. We opted for
cluster rather than individual randomisation (randomising clinics, rather than individual patients

[HTML][HTML] Predicting prognosis in patients with advanced cancer

PC Stone, S Lund - Annals of oncology, 2007 - Elsevier
… Background: Patients with advanced cancer and their carers frequently wish to know how
long they can expect to live. Improved prognostication would enable patients and their carers …

Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the Karnofsky performance status

JW Yates, B Chalmer, FP McKegney - Cancer, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
… It is a general measure of patient independence and has been widely used as a … of patients
with cancer. Although there is a long history of use of the KPS for judging cancer patients, its …

Clinical survival predictors in patients with advanced cancer

A Viganó, E Bruera, GS Jhangri… - Archives of internal …, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
patients with advanced cancer. However, in contrast to most studies dealing with survival in
patients with advanced or terminal cancer, … our patients were not accrued in clinical trials. All …

Common symptoms in patients with advanced cancer

EB Curtis, R Krech, TD Walsh - Journal of palliative care, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
… The goal of this study was to identify the symptoms of patients with advanced cancer. One
hundred consecutive patients referred to the Palliative Care Service at the Cleveland Clinic …

Information giving and decision-making in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review

CM Gaston, G Mitchell - Social science & medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
Patients with advanced, non-curable cancer face difficult decisions on further treatment, where
a small increase in survival time must be balanced against the toxicity of the treatment. If …

Management of bleeding in patients with advanced cancer

J Pereira, T Phan - The oncologist, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… for controlling bleeding in a patient with advanced cancer. … Bleeding occurs in up to 10% of
patients with advanced cancer… reviewed in the context of advanced cancer, as are systemic …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic tools in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review

CPL Simmons, DC McMillan, K McWilliams… - Journal of pain and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… predict survival in patients with advanced cancer. The D-… patients examined the BCI in
patients with advanced cancer. The patient population included those with a diagnosis of cancer

Religion in patients with advanced cancer

JW Yates, BJ Chalmer, PS James… - Medical and …, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
… with serious illness such as advanced cancer has not been well … patients with advanced
cancer was accomplished through a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team. A group of patients

Determinants of quality of life in patients with advanced cancer

C Zimmermann, D Burman, N Swami… - … Care in Cancer, 2011 - Springer
… determinants of HRQL in outpatients with advanced cancer. … is of particular relevance in
patients with advanced cancer [4–6]. … influence HRQL for patients with advanced cancer, so that …