Palliating Patients Who Have Unresectable Colorectal Cancer: Creating the Right Framework and Salient Symptom Management

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1065-1092

  Dunn, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROCODEINE; DIURETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; LAXATIVE; LEVORPHANOL; METHADONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; SCOPOLAMINE; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANALGESIA; ANOREXIA; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ASCITES; CACHEXIA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONSULTATION; COUNSELING; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROTOXICITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; VOMITING;

EID: 33746897373     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.05.008     Document Type: Review

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