City of Hope Pain & Palliative Care Resource Center

II.   Palliative Care/End of Life/Bereavement
       A.  Palliative Surgery

       City of Hope Publications

1.      Podnos, T. D., Juarez, G., Pameijer, C., Uman, G. C., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. D. (2007). Impact of surgical palliation on quality of life in patients with advanced malignancy: Results of the decision and outcomes in palliative surgery (DOPS) trial. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 14(2), 922-928.

2.      Podnos, T. D., Juarez, G., Pameijer, C., Uman, G. C., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. D. (2007). Surgical palliation of advanced gastrointestinal tumors: results from the decision and outcomes in palliative surgery (DOPS) trial. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 10(4), 871-876.

3.      Cullinane, C. A., Paz, I. B., Smith, D., Carter, N., & Grannis, F. W. (2004). Surgical management of pericardial effusion in patients with malignancy. Chest, 125(4), 1328-1334.

4.      Ferrell, B. (2004). Palliative care research: the need to construct paradigms. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 7(3), 408-410.

5.      McCahill, L. E. (2004). Methodology for scientific evaluation of palliative surgery. Surgical Oncology Clinics N Am, 13(3), 413-427.

6.      Ferrell, B. R.  (2004). Palliative care: an essential aspect of quality cancer care. Surgical Oncology Clinics N Am, 13(3), 401-411.

7.      Wagman, L. D. Palliative surgical oncology. (2004). Surgical Oncology Clinics N Am, 13(3), XIII-XIV.

8.      Ferrell, B. R., Chu, D. Z., Wagman, L., Juarez, G., Borneman, T., Cullinane, C., McCahill L. (2003). Patient and surgeon decision-making regarding surgery of advanced malignancies. Oncology Nursing Forum, 30(6), E106-E114.

9.      Borneman, T., Chu, D., Wagman, L., Ferrell, B., Juarez, G., McCahill, L., & Uman. G. (2003). Concerns of family caregivers of patients with cancer facing palliative surgery for advanced malignancies. Oncology Nursing Forum, 30(6), 997-1005.

10.      McCahill, L. E., Krouse, R. S., Chu, D., Juarez, G., Uman, G., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. (2003). Surgical decision making in palliative surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 195, 411-423.

11.    Ferrell, B. R., Chu, D. Z., Wagman, L., Juarez, G., Borneman, T., Cullinane, C., McCahill L. E. (2003). Patient and surgeon decision-making regarding surgery of advanced malignancies. Oncology Nursing Forum, 30(6), E106-E114.

12.    Cullinane, C., Borneman, T., Smith, D., Chu, D., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. (2003). The surgical treatment of cancer: A comparison of resource utilization following procedures performed with a curative and palliative intent. Cancer, 98(10), 266-2273.

13.     Kakuda, J. T., Lamont, J. P., Chu, D., & Paz, I. (2003). The role of pelvic exenteration in the management of recurrent rectal cancer.  American  Journal of Surgery, 186(6), 660-664.       

14.    McCahill, L. E., Smith, D., Borneman, T., Juarez, G., Cullinane, C., Chu, D., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. (2003). A prospective evaluation of palliative outcomes for surgery of advanced malignancies.  Annals of Surgical Oncology, 10(6), 654-663.

15.    Cullinane, C. A., Chu, D., & Mamelak, A. N. (2002). Current surgical options in the control of cancer pain.  Cancer Practice,  10 (Suppl 1), S21-S26.

16.    Krouse, R., Chu, D., Grant, M., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. D. (2002). Letter to the editor regarding the quality-of-life in pancreaticoduodenectomy survivors. Annals of Surgery, 235(2), 310-311.

17.    Krouse, R.S., McCahill, L.E., Easson, A. M., & Dunn, G. P. (2002). When the sun can set on an unoperated bowel obstruction: Management of malignant bowel obstruction. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 195(1), 117-128.

18.    McCahill, L. E., & Ferrell, B. R. (2002). Palliative surgery for cancer pain. Western Journal of Medicine, 176, 107-110.  

19.    McCahill, L. E., Krouse, R., Chu, D., Juarez, G., Uman, G., Ferrell, B., & Wagman, L. (2002). Indications and use of palliative surgery-results of Society of Surgical Oncological survey. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 9(1), 104-112. 

20.    McCahill, L. E., Krouse, R. S., Chu, D., Juarez, G., Uman, G., Ferrell, B. R., & Wagman, L. (2002). Decision making in palliative surgery.  Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 195, 411-423.

21.    Wagman, L. (2002). Guest Editorial: Palliative surgery: A modern perspective. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 80, 1- 3.

22.    Blair, S. L., Chu, D., & Schwarz, R. E. (2001).  Outcome of palliative operations for malignant bowel obstruction in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from nongynecological cancer.  Annals of Surgical Oncology, 8(8), 632-637.   

23.    Krouse, R. S., Nelson, R. A., Ferrell, B. R., Grube, B., Juarez, G., Wagman, L. & Chu, D. (2001). Surgical palliation at a cancer center.  Arch Surg, 136(7), 773-778.

      
     Recommended Publications

1.       Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 10^th Edition
          -    Pazdur, R., Coia, L. R., Hoskins, W. J., & Wagman, L. D. (2005).  CA: CMP Healthcare Media. ISBN #: 1891483234.               

2.       Surgical Oncology Clinics North America: Palliative Surgical Oncology, Volume 13, Number 3
          -    Bewick, C., & Wagman, L. (2004).  PA: W B Saunders Company. ISBN #: 10553207.

3.       Surgical Palliative Care
          -    Dunn, G.,  & Johnson, A. (2004).  UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN #: 0198510004.   

     
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     Key References

1.      Palliative Care by the Surgeon
         -      The Journal of American College of Surgeons (JACS) has featured a 20-plus articles series on palliative care in surgery. These end-of-life issues are written for and by surgeons and edited by Geoffrey Dunn.  Dunn is co-chair of the Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care Surgeons Palliative Care Workgroup.