Table of Contents

PART 1: SCIENCE OF PROGNOSTICATION
1: Paul Glare and Nicholas Christakis: Overview: advancing the clinical science of prognostication
2: William J. Mackillop: Differences in prognostication between early stage cancer and advanced cancer
3: Elizabeth B. Lamont: Foreseeing: formulating an accurate prognosis
4: Phyllis Butow, Rebecca Hagerty, Martin Tattersall, and Martin Stockler: Foretelling: communicating the prognosis
5: Phyllis A. Gimotty: Statistical concepts and issues related to prognostic models
6: Paul Glare, Marco Maltoni and Cinzia Brunelli: Evidence based medicine
7: Jay F. Piccirillo and Anna Vlahiotis: Tools for formulating prognosis
8: Bert Broeckaert and Paul Glare: Ethics
PART 2: PROGNOSTICATION IN SPECIFIC CANCERS
9: C. Martin Tammemagi: Lung cancer
10: Tony Geoghegan and Michael J. Lee: Colorectal cancer
11: Fabio Efficace and Laura Biganzoli: Breast cancer
12: Luigi Schips and Richard Zigeuner: Bladder cancer
13: Timothy Gilligan: Prognosis of prostate cancer
14: Moritz Koch, Jürgen Weitz and Markus W. Büchler: Pancreatic cancer
15: Kelvin K. Ng and Ronnie T. Poon: Hepatoma
16: Ceri Hughes and Steve Thomas: Head and neck cancer
17: Jonathan Carter: Gynaecological cancer
18: Hiroko Ohgaki: Brain cancer
19: Charles Dumontet and Catherine Thieblemont: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL)
20: Paul Glare: Leukaemia and myeloma
21: Katherine T. Morris and Murray F. Brennan: Sarcoma
22: Jonathan Dowell: Unknown primary
23: Anne Hamilton and Katherine Clark: Melanoma
PART 3: PROGNOSIS IN PALLIATIVE CARE
24: Edward Chow and Albert Yee: Bone secondaries
25: Andrew Broadbent and George Hruby: Brain secondaries
26: Vicki Jackson and Lida Nabati: Leptomeningeal disease
27: Angela Byrne and Michael Lee: Liver metastases
28: David Currow and Christine Sanderson: Lung secondaries
29: Niklas Zojer and Martin Pecherstorfer: Hypercalcemia
30: Nora Janjan, Anita Mahajan, Eric L. Chang, Edward Lin, Sunil Krishnan, and Edward Chow: Spinal cord compression
31: Maria Montoya and Eduardo Bruera: Pain relief
32: Sebastiano Mercadante: Malignant bowel obstruction
33: Lara Alloway, Vaughan Keeley and Irene Higginson: Breathlessness
34: Miriam Friedlander and David Kissane: Delirium
35: Aminah Jatoi: Weight loss
36: Tugba Yavuzsen and Mellar P. Davis: Fatigue

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About the Author

Dr Paul Glare has been a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians since 1990, a Fellow of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine since it was created in 2000 and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. As well as maintaining a full clinical load, he is an active teacher and researcher. His principal research interests are prognostication and the anorexia cachexia syndrome. He was the inaugural Research Fellow in the Palliative Care Program at the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio USA, from 1989 until 1991. For more than 15 years he has taken a leadership role in the development of the specialty of palliative medicine, both locally and
internationally, and is currently managing major initiatives in palliative care education and service delivery for the New South Wales Department of Health. Nicholas Christakis is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. His clinical work is in the field of palliative medicine. Dr. Christakis's past research has examined the accuracy and role of prognosis in medicine, ways of improving end of life care, and the
determinants and outcomes of hospice use. He is currently concerned with health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health disability, health behaviour, health care, and death in one person
can influence the same phenomena in others in a person's social network, including issues related to caregiver burden. Dr. Christakis was the recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, awarded for an "outstanding body of work contributing to the enhancement of hospice and palliative care" in 2006.

Reviews

...the quality of this book is outstanding...very necessary for physicians and other medical personnel.
*Marlene S. Foreman, BSN, Hospice of Acadiana, Inc.*