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New Articles for February, March and April 2009

o A Phase II Trial of Triamcinolone Hexacetanide for Symptomatic Recurrent Malignant Ascites
o Anesthetic Procedures for Management of Cancer Pain:Outcome and Complications of Epidural Analgesia in Patients with Chronic Cancer Pain
o Assessing Persistent Cancer Pain: A Comparison of Current Pain Ratings and Pain Recalled from the Past Week
o Center to Advance Palliative Care Palliative Care Consultation Service Metrics: Consensus Recommendations.
o Do Cannabinoids have a Role in Cancer Pain Management?
o Dying Cancer Patients Talk about Euthanasia.
o Effects of Red Blood Cell Transfusion on Anemia-Related Symptoms in Patients with Cancer
o Efficacy of a Scheduled IV Cocktail of Antiemetics for the Palliation of Nausea and Vomiting in a Hospice Population
o Expressive Writing in Patients Receiving Palliative Care: A Feasibility Study
o Intranasal Sufentanil for Cancer-associated Breakthrough Pain s
o Opioids for the management of breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients
o Palliative Sedation in a Specialized Unit for Acute Palliative Care in a Cancer Hospital: Comparing Patients Dying With and Without Palliative Sedation
o Pathways to distress: The multiple determinants of depression, hopelessness, and the desire for hastened death in metastatic cancer patients
o Preference for place of care and place of death in palliative care: Are these different questions?
o Screening for Psychological Distress in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review
o The Rapidly Changing Location of Death in Canada, 1994-2004
o Upper gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with advanced cancer: relationship to nutritional and performance status

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