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Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

Subject Areas: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - Wolters Kluwer Health
ISSN: 1751-4258
SJR: 42

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Editorial introductions

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000647 pmid:37096649

Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care was launched in 2007. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of supportive and...
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Neurosurgical interventions for cancer pain

Alamri, Alexander; Mostofi, Abteen; Pereira, Erlick A.C.

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000642 pmid:37039569

Purpose of review Half of all cancer patients will develop cancer-related pain, and a fifth of these patients will continue to experience pain refractory to maximal pharmacological therapy. This, together with the opioid crisis, has prompted a resurgence in neurosurgical treatments....
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Tapentadol for the management of cancer pain in adults: an update

Boland, Jason W.

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000641 pmid:36919687

Purpose of review Tapentadol is the first of a new class of analgesics, having synergistic µ-opioid receptor agonist and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitory actions. It has been widely researched in many areas of pain, often in noninferiority studies against potent opioids. This review describes...
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Opioid use disorder in cancer patients

Lewis, Cara E.S.; Schutzer-Weissmann, John; Farquhar-Smith, Paul

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000640 pmid:36866646

Purpose of review The misuse of opioids has increased significantly in recent decades. Historically, cancer patients have not been considered at risk of opioid misuse. However, cancer pain is common, and opioids are often prescribed. Guidelines addressing opioid misuse often exclude cancer...
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Four interesting articles to keep us updated

Chow, Edward

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000649 pmid:37096650
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Survival prediction in advanced cancer patients – a narrative review

Lee, Shing Fung; Simone, Charles B.

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000643 pmid:37039589

Purpose of review The exploration for accurate ways to predict survival for advanced cancer patients continues to be a significant theme despite the advent of objective criteria and their combination with clinical criteria. The purpose of this article was to review some of the latest studies...
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Patient-reported outcomes versus proxy-reported outcomes in supportive and palliative care: a summary of recent literature

Oldenburger, Eva; Devlies, Julie; Callens, Dylan; De Roo, Maaike L.

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000644 pmid:37039573

Purpose of the review Patient-reported outcomes are one of the most valuable clinical outcome measures. In palliative care, however, they are often difficult to retrieve. Therefore, proxy-reported outcomes are sometimes used as a surrogate. As there have been concerns about the validity of...
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Current practices in managing end-of-life existential suffering

Di Risio, Michelle; Thompson, Alison

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000646 pmid:37039587

Purpose of review Within the context of palliative care, existential suffering (ES) can be an exclusive source of suffering or intertwined with physical pain and/or psychological and spiritual suffering. With newly emerging modalities for addressing this phenomenon and its increasing salience...
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence applications for supportive and palliative care in cancer patients

Reddy, Varun; Nafees, Abdulwadud; Raman, Srinivas

2023 Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

doi:10.1097/spc.0000000000000645 pmid:37039590

Purpose of review Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology that has the potential to improve and augment the clinical workflow in supportive and palliative care (SPC). The objective of this study was to provide an overview of the recent studies applying AI to SPC in cancer...

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