Section 1: Palliative Care
Chapter 1: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc
Chapter 2: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer
David Hui
Chapter 3: Nurse Led Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients
Emily J. Martin and Eric J. Roeland
Chapter 4: Benefits of Early Palliative Care to Informal Family Caregivers
Emily J. Martin and Eric J. Roeland
Chapter 5: The Optimal Delivery of Palliative Care
Jaclyn Yoong and Peter Poon
Chapter 6: Availability and Integration of Palliative Care at US Cancer Centers
Pedro Perez-Cruz and Alfredo Rodriguez-Nunez
Chapter 7: Cost Savings Associated with Palliative Care
Breffni Hannon
Section 2: Symptom Assessment and Management
Chapter 8: Changes in the Last Months of Life
Jaclyn Yoong and Fiona Runacres
Chapter 9: The Edmonton Sympton Assessment System (ESAS)
Breffni Hannon
Chapter 10: Reversibility of Delirium in Palliative Care
Tiffany Shaw and Eric Prommer
Chapter 11: Multi-Component Intervention to Prevent Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients
Peter Lawlor
Chapter 12: Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine, and Lorazepam for Delirium
Anna Cecilia Tenorio and Maxine de la Cruz
Chapter 13: Decompressive Surgery for Malignant Spinal Cord Compression
Esme Finlay and Diaa Osman
Chapter 14: Opioid Rotation for Toxicity Reduction
Anna Cecilia Tenorio and Akhila Reddy
Chapter 15: Duloxetine for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Rebecca Burke and Akhila Reddy
Chapter 16: Effects of Morphine on Dyspnea
Arif H. Kamal and Jason A. Webb
Chapter 17: Palliative Oxygen Versus Room Air for Refractory Dyspnea
Jason A. Webb and Arif H. Kamal
Chapter 18: Exercise for the Management of Cancer-Related Fatigue
Lynn A. Flint and Eric Widera
Chapter 19: Reduction of Cancer-related Fatigue with Dexamethasone: a Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Chirag A. Patel
Chapter 20: Parenteral Hydration in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Carlos Eduardo Paiva and Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva
Chapter 21: Enteral Tube Feeding Dysphagic Stroke Patients
Francisco Loaiciga and Rony Dev
Chapter 22: Feeding Tube and Survival Among Patients With Severe Cognitive Impairment
Claudio Adile
Chapter 23: Parenteral Nutrition in Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
Francisco Loaiciga and Rony Dev
Chapter 24: Docusate and Sennosides for Constipation
Shalini Dalal
Chapter 25: Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Advanced Illness
Donna S. Zhukovsky
Chapter 26: Octreotide for Malignant Bowel Obstruction
Shalini Dalal

Section 3: Psychosocial Aspects of Care and Communication
Chapter 27: Prevalence of Mood Disorders in Patients with Cancer
Linh Nguyen
Chapter 28: Dignity Therapy for Patients near the End-of-Life
Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay
Chapter 29: Association between Spirituality/Religiosity and Quality of End-of-Life Care
Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay
Chapter 30: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT)
Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc
Chapter 31: Doctors' Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients
Anjali Desai and Andrew S. Epstein
Chapter 32: Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Advanced Cancer
David Hui
Chapter 33: Expectations about Effects of Chemotherapy in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Rajiv Agarwal and Andrew S. Epstein
Chapter 34: Physician Message and Patient's Perception of Compassion
Lynn A. Flint and Eric Widera
Section 4: End of Life Care and Planning
Chapter 35: Association between Advance Directives and Quality of End-of-Life Care
Donna S. Zhukovsky
Chapter 36: Outcomes Associated with End-of-Life Discussions
Masanori Mori
Chapter 37: End-of-Life Discussions and Aggressiveness of Care Received Near Death
Yael Schenker and Justin Yu
Chapter 38: A Communication Intervention in the Intensive Care Unit
Lori Olson and Christian T. Sinclair
Chapter 39: Clinical Signs of Impending Death in Cancer Patients
Masanori Mori
Chapter 40: Factors Considered Important at the End of Life
Ravi B. Parikh and Oreofe O. Odejide
Chapter 41: Quality End-of-Life Care: Patients' Perspectives
Jesse A. Soodalter and Yael Schenker
Chapter 42: Family Perspectives on Aggressive End-of-Life Care
Ravi B. Parikh and Oreofe Odejide
Chapter 43: Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care
Esme Finlay and Erin FitzGerald
Chapter 44: Liverpool Care Pathway for Hospitalized Cancer Patients
Carlos Eduardo Paiva and Andre Filipe Junqueira dos Santos
Chapter 45: Palliative Sedation Therapy and Survival
Joseph Arthur
Chapter 46: What Patients and Families Want to Know About Hospice
Regina Mackey and Kimberson Tanco
Chapter 47: The Impact of Hospice on Mortality of Widowed Spouses
Kimberson Tanco and Regina Mackey
Chapter 48: Attitudes and Desires of Terminally Ill Patients Regarding Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Yu Jung Kim
Chapter 49: Factors associated with Outcomes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Dutt Mehta and Eric Prommer
Chapter 50: Influence of Survival Probability on Preference for CPR
Christian T. Sinclair and Allison E. Jordan