Cancer: Pain and Symptom Management

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Breanne Lechner (Editor)
Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ronald Chow (Editor)
Infinitas Research Group, London, Ontario, Canada

Natalie Pulenzas (Editor)
Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Marko Popovic (Editor)
Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Na Zhang (Editor)
Professor of Radiation Oncology at Liaoning Province Cancer Hospital in China

Xiaojing Zhang, MD, PhD (Editor)
Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor, Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, Dalian Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Edward Chow, PhD (Editor)
Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Editor)
Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel
Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel
Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel
School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Series: Health and Human Development
BISAC: MED062000

Many cancer patients experience a variety of distressing symptoms, adversely affecting their functional status and quality of life (QOL). Subjective symptoms such as pain, fatigue and depression are common among cancer patients, with approximately 33-55% of cancer patients experiencing pain during the course of their illness. Previous literature commonly examined a single symptom and its effect on patients’ functional status and QOL, but patients often experience multiple symptoms simultaneously. Since individual symptoms are often associated with decreased QOL, the assumption that symptom clusters might have a greater effect on QOL is logical.

The coexistence of symptoms provides an insight into the importance of assessing clusters of symptoms rather than focusing on individual symptoms. Although the focus of single symptoms has advanced the understanding of those particular symptoms, it may not be as helpful to health care professionals in guiding practice when patients present several concurrent symptoms. It is important for clinicians to address and ultimately treat all concurrent symptoms. Symptom cluster research will help our understanding and treatment of multiple symptoms.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
pp. xiii

Chapter 1
Pain and Symptom Management: The Importance of Symptom Clusters
(Ronald Chow, Marko Popovic, Milica Milakovic, Edward Chow, and Joav Merrick, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
pp. 1-4

Section One: Pain and Symptom Management
pp. 5

Chapter 2
Latest Advances in the Management of Radiation-Induced Pain Flare, Nausea and Vomiting
(Nicholas Chiu, Leonard Chiu, Marko Popovic, Carlo DeAngelis, Mark Pasetka, Stephen Lutz, Na Zhang, Gustavo Nader Marta, Lucas Castro Mendez, Breanne Lechner, Natalie Pulenzas, Milica Milakovic, Ronald Chow and Edward Chow, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontaria, Canada, and others)
pp. 7-18

Chapter 3
Elements of Symptom Management
(Nemica Thavarajah, Natalie Pulenzas, Edward Chow, and Joav Merrick, Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
pp. 19-22

Chapter 4
Analysis of Symptom Clusters in Patients with Brain Metastases
(Erin Wong, Liying Zhang, Marc Kerba, Palmira Foro, Brita Danielson, May Tsao, Nemica Thavarajah, Paul Cheon, Cyril Danjoux, Natalie Pulenzas, and Edward Chow, Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
pp. 23-40

Chapter 5
Symptom Clusters Analysis in Bone Metastases Patients
(Leonard Chiu, Edward Chow, Nicholas Chiu, Liying Zhang, Gillian Bedard, Alysa Fairchild, Vassilios Vassiliou, Mohamed A Alm El-Din, Reynaldo Jesus-Garcia, Fabien Forges, Ling-Ming Tseng, Ming-Feng Hou, Wei-Chu Chie, Takefumi Satoh, Brigette BY Ma, Henry Lam, and Andrew Bottomley, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
pp. 41-74

Chapter 6
Fentanyl Formulations in the Management of Breakthrough Cancer Pain
(Michelle Zhou, Marissa Slaven, Andrea Forgione, Mark Pasetka, Liang Zeng, Henry Lam, Lori Holden, Natalie Pulenzas, Nicholas Lao, Edward Chow, and Carlo DeAngelis, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
pp. 75-94

Chapter 7
Pain in a Patient with Metastatic Prostate Cancer to Bone and Multiple Co-Morbidities
(Eva Bain, Natalie Pulenzas, Marko Popovic, Breanne Lechner, Gillian Bedard, Parker Sheehan, Lori Holden, Erin Wong, Rachel McDonald, and Edward Chow, Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
pp. 95-100

Chapter 8
Pain Following Palliative Radiotherapy in a Patient with Bone Metastases
(Arnav Agarwal, Marko Popovic, Breanne Lechner, Natalie Pulenzas, Parker Sheehan, Lori Holden, Gillian Bedard, Erin Wong, Rachel McDonald, and Edward Chow, Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
pp. 101-106

Chapter 9
Olanzapine (Zyprexa) for Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
(Nathan M Shumway, Sandra E Terrazzino and Christopher B Jones, Department of Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC), San Antonio, Texas, USA, and others)
pp. 107-118

Section Two: Acknowledgments
pp. 119

Chapter 10
About the Editors
pp. 121-122

Chapter 11
About the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
pp. 123

Chapter 12
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Israel
pp. 125-128

Chapter 13
About the Book Series “Health and Human Development”
pp. 129-132

Section Three: Index
pp. 133

Index
pp. 135-140

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