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Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Kenji Eguchi

    1. National Shikoku Cancer Center, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

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  2. Jean Klastersky

    1. Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des Tumeurs de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique

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  3. Ronald Feld

    1. Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

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  • Increasing readers fundamental understanding of the basic mechanisms of various symptoms that affect patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, and

  • other incurable diseases

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  2. Quality of Life (QOL) Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Quality of Life Evaluation in Chronic Illness Across Cultures

      • Sonya Eremenco, Kimberly Webster, David Cella
      Pages 171-175

    3. Quality of Life in Palliative Medicine: Current Status and Problems of QOL Research in Japan

      • Kunihiko Ishitani
      Pages 177-185

  3. Patient Education and Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Complementary Medicine

      • Stephen C. Schimpff
      Pages 191-202

    3. Support with Information, Education and Counselling in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS

      • Mayumi Abe
      Pages 203-212

    4. Patients’ Perceptions of Palliation in Japan

      • Keiko Hamaguchi, Yasuko Ishigaki, Kunihiko Ishitani
      Pages 213-222

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 225-225
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About this book

Intractable illnesses such as advanced cancer, AIDS, and chronic progressive neurological diseases present health-care professionals with an array of symptoms and ethical issues that demand extensive exploration and consideration. As the quest for advances in symptomatology continues, it is imperative to disseminate and integrate the knowledge currently available in palliative medicine. The International Symposium on Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine was held in Tokyo in October 1997 to provide health-care professionals with a multidisciplinary approach for improving comprehensive palliative care. With invited speakers from North America, Europe, and Japan, the symposium focused on standard management and clinical trials of control of symptoms such as pain and cachexia, ethics in palliative medicine, the economics of health care, quality-of-life research, management of depression, and patient education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Shikoku Cancer Center, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

    Kenji Eguchi

  • Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des Tumeurs de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique

    Jean Klastersky

  • Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada

    Ronald Feld

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Perspectives and Future Directions in Palliative Medicine

  • Editors: Kenji Eguchi, Jean Klastersky, Ronald Feld

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68494-7

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-70240-5Published: 01 October 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-68496-1Published: 23 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-68494-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 225

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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