Palliative Care in the Elderly Breast Cancer Patient

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-139

  Laird, B J A ^a   Fallon, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; cancer; depression; dignity; elderly; pain

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; CODEINE; DIAMORPHINE; DULOXETINE; ETORICOXIB; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROMORPHONE; IMIPRAMINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIRTAZAPINE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; SERTRALINE; STEROID; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVENING DOSAGE; FLUID RETENTION; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MOON FACE; MORNING DOSAGE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN ULCER; STOMACH IRRITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREMOR; URINE RETENTION; VERTIGO; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 59149088417     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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