Here we examine clinical trials designed for locally advanced and metastatic biliary tract cancer and review the existing data supporting palliative therapy with gemcitabine alone or in association with other drugs.
The literature reveals a paucity of clear data on palliative care needs in humanitarian crises.
Overall there are relatively few published data evaluating palliative chemotherapy for unresectable disease.
Cross-sectional self-reported data from palliative care populations in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa using FACIT-G+Pal and POS measures.
Furthermore, there are very few data on palliative metastasectomies confined to the peritoneum and ovary (Miller et al, 1997; Mahteme et al, 2004; Erroi et al, 2007).
DataPall is a simple, effective electronic medical records system that can assist in developing an evidence base of clinical data for palliative care in low resource settings.
Though there is good evidence for CBT in people without physical illness, there is a paucity of data in palliative care [ 35, 36].
The paper charts of the corresponding patients were reviewed to determine additional clinical data regarding palliative level of care status relative to swallow evaluation.
We thank co-investigators Dr David Popkin, Dr Donna Wilson, Dr Michael Maclean and the many research assistants, data collectors, palliative home care teams, Alberta and Saskatchewan Cancer Registries and Centers and participants for making this study possible.
Secondly, data on palliative care was also limited requiring assumptions about treatment based on expert opinion, with monthly costs extrapolated from studies of resource use patterns for other tumours.
3. To examine the influence of a PC designation on health service utilization, five multiple linear regression models were estimated using the 1998/99 data from the palliative and non-palliative sample (n = 2,734) described above.
