Advertisement


Jennifer S. Temel, MD's Expert Perspective: Palliative Care in 2015

2015 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

Advertisement

As Steering Committee Chair of this year’s symposium, Jennifer S. Temel, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the goals and highlights of the meeting.



Related Videos

Palliative Care

Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, on Palliative Radiation for Advanced Cancer and Symptomatic Bone Metastases

Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, of Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, discusses the ways in which a dedicated palliative radiation consult service can improve the quality of palliative cancer care (Abstract 110).

Palliative Care

Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH, on Effective Care Integration and the Comanagement Model

Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital, summarizes her keynote lecture (plenary talk).

Symptom Management
Palliative Care

Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, on CINV Clinical Trial Results: The Alliance A221301 Study

Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, of Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, discusses the encouraging study findings on olanzapine for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy (Abstract 176).

Palliative Care

Judith Vick, MD Candidate, and Rachelle E. Bernacki, MD, on A New Clinical Tool: The “Surprise Question”

Judith Vick, MD Candidate, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Rachelle E. Bernacki, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discuss a tool that could help clinicians identify seriously ill patients who would benefit from conversations about their goals and values (Abstract 8).

Pain Management

Judith Paice, PhD, RN, on Neuropathic Pain

Judith Paice, PhD, RN, of Northwestern University, reviews the current principles on assessing and treating neuropathic pain in cancer.

Advertisement

Advertisement




Advertisement