Here we provide the updated version of the guidelines of the European Association for
Palliative Care (EAPC) on the use of opioids for the treatment of cancer pain. The update was …

… Minton and Stone undertook a systematic review of the prevalence of fatigue in disease-free
breast cancer survivors and concluded that there was good evidence of fatigue occurring up …

Background: Effective communication between healthcare professionals and relatives of
patients approaching the end-of-life is vital to ensure patients have a ‘good death’. To improve …

… statistician4, Chris Roberts reader in biostatistics4, Laura Kelly Macmillan consultant in
palliative medicine5, Stephen Barclay Macmillan post-doctoral research fellow6, Patrick C Stone …

This article presents the contrasting European and American perspectives on cancer‐related
fatigue (CRF) and its impact on functioning in cancer survivors. The content is presented in …

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 …

Adhesion of circulating tumor cells to the blood vessel endothelium is a critical step in cancer
metastasis. We show in this study that galectin-3, the concentration of which is greatly …

CONTEXT: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common and distressing symptom affecting
patients with cancer. There is an increasing number of drug trials examining potential …

… Minton O, Stone P: A systematic review of the scales used for the measurement of cancerrelated
fatigue (CRF). Ann Oncol doi:10.1093/annonc/ mdn537 [epub ahead of print on August 4…

Background: The Department of Health end-of-life strategy contains a number of quality markers
which include taking into account patients’ wishes for their final place of care. There is a …