Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 2003  ISSN 1538-8573

Journal of

Terminal Oncology

Research, philosophy, and ethics in end-of-life care

Established 2002

International edition


Editorial

Cancer chemotherapy in palliative care
  Michael Appleton, MD

JTO news briefs

In the news
Calendar

Original articles

Self-transcendence in family caregivers
of terminally ill patients

  Gail Enyert, MS, RN, FNP
  Mary E. Burman, PhD, RN, FNP
Alleviating the suffering of children with
serious of life-threatening illness

  Javier R. Kane, MD
  R. Garrison Barber, PhD
  Marian Jordan, CCVI
  Karen T. Tichenor, RN
  Kimberly Camp, RN
Information needs of family caregivers
of terminal cancer patients in Taiwan

  Wei-chun Lin, MD
  Chao-jung Tsao, MD
Institutional patterns of symptomatic
medication in hospitalized patients
with advanced cancer

  Kevin Panico, MD
  Paolo Manfredi, MD

Rx trends

Morphine hyperalgesia: A case report
  George R. Wilson, MD
  Gary M. Reisfield, MD

Ethics roundtable

Sisters to the end: The rights of the mentally
retarded to refuse treatment

  Steven J. Baumrucker, MD, Coeditor-in-Chief
  Mellar P. Davis, MD, FCCP
  Matt Stolick, PhD
  Gerald M. Morris, JD, LLM
  Joanne Sheldon, RN, MEd, CRNH, CIC

Book reviews

When Children Die: Improving Palliative and
End-of-Life Care for Children and
Their Families
,

  Edited by Marilyn J. Field
  and Richard E. Behrman
  Reviewed by Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD
Care of the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient:
A Handbook for the Medical Oncologist
,

  By Michael R. Owens, MD, FACP
  Reviewed by J. Cameron Muir, MD

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