Volume 11, Supplement 1
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Psychiatric Aspects of Pain in Cancer Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)The goal of this review is to discuss the psychiatric aspects of pain in cancer patients from a biopsychosocialapproach. Pain in cancer patients is considered as a complex reaction causing severe suffering and involvesmany ...
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Ethical Dilemmas and the Dying Muslim Patient
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)All health care providers may be confronted by a Muslim patient, but many health care professionals arelacking basic knowledge on the Muslim faith and medical ethics based on Islamic law (Shariah). One mustendeavour to ...
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Selected Issues in Palliative Care among East Jerusalem Arab Residents
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Understanding of cultural context is important when working with Palestinian patients, particularly in Israelihospitals. Cultural competence includes individual assessment of communication needs and preferences. "Thisis ...
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Depression and Pain in Persons with Cancer: Treatment Gap and a Case for Action
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)The epidemiology of depression showed that the rates are high. For example, the World Mental HealthSurvey, an epidemiologic community study conducted in 28 countries, found a life-time prevalence rate thatranged from 3.3 ...
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Surprised by Joy: a Journey through Suffering
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Understanding suffering as possible meaning of cancer for patients and their families is a necessary part of cancer nursing care. Suffering occurs when the intactness or integrity of the individuals is threatened or disrupted ...
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Historical Perspectives and Trends in the Management of Pain for Cancer Patients in Oman
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Introduction. Sultanate of Oman is the second largest country in the Gulf, with a population of 2,867,428 (2008) of which 35.2% is under 15 years and only 3.7% above 65 years. Incidence of newly diagnosed cancers is also ...
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Bring about Benefit, Forestall Harm: What Communication Studies Says About Spirituality and Cancer Care
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Technological advances in medicine allow health care providers to diagnose diseases earlier, diminish suffering,and prolong life. These advances, although widely revered for changing the face of cancer care, come at a ...
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Pain Relief as a Human Right
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)For centuries, medical and surgical treatment has emphasized saving the life of the patient rather thanameliorating the patient’s pain, particularly when there were few options for the latter. Today at the dawn of the21st ...
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Researching the Meaning of Life:Finding New Sources of Hope
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)The purpose of the paper is to discuss means of assisting terminally ill patients in seeking for sources ofmeaning and hope, alongside the acknowledgment that their lifespan is short.Psycho-spiritual aspects make asubstantial ...
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Beyond Pain: The Search for Hope in the Patients Journey
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Hope is the foundation of the cancer patients world and it is when the darkness is most profound that hopeemerges as the true reality. Hope remains the patients inner strength, a dynamism that grows more powerfuleven as ...
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Assessment of Pain Coping Behaviors: An Experience of Saudi Advanced Cancer Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Background: Cancer is one of the major health problems thoughout the world. The number of cancer patientsis increasing, out of the estimated nine million new cancer cases every year, more than half are in ...
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My Illness, Myself: On the Secrecy of Shame
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Research has shown that the experience of being diagnosed with cancer has a negative psychosocial impacton patients and their families, often resulting in distress, and numerous practical and relationship challenges.Men ...
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Religion, Medicine and Spirituality: What We Know, What We Don’t Know and What We Do
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Religion and spirituality have been linked to medicine and to healing for centuries. However, in the early1900’s the Flexner report noted that there was no place for religion in medicine; that medicine was strictly ascientific ...
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Spiritual Pain and Suffering
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Spiritual pain/suffering is commonly experienced by persons with life-limiting illness and their families.Physical pain itself can be exacerbated by non-physical causes such as fear, anxiety, grief, unresolved guilt,depression ...
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Advanced Care Planning, Empowering Patients for a Peaceful Death
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)In the early 1900’s, Americans had a life expectancy of about 50 years. Childhood mortality was very highand an adult who lived into their sixties was considered to be doing pretty well. Prior to the advent of differenttypes ...
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Beyond Quality of Life: the Meaning of Death and Suffering in Palliative Care
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)The majority of patients treated for cancer will have pain at some point in their journey. Suffering and deathare common events in cancer patients. Palliative care has been very successful in reducing the discomfortcaused ...
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Formal and Informal Spiritual Assessment
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Spirituality is increasingly recognized as an essential element of health. A novel model of interprofessionalspiritual care was developed by a national consensus conference of experts in spiritual care and palliative ...
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Clinical Aspects of Pharmacogenetics of Pain and Co-Morbidities of Emotional Distress
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)The majority of patients treated for cancer will have pain at some point in their journey. It will be due to thedisease (e.g. bone metastasis, fracture, organ invasion) or from iatrogenic causes (chemotherapy, surgery ...
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Practical Aspects to Spiritual Pain
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)Spiritual pain/suffering is commonly experienced by persons with life-limiting illness and their families.Physical pain itself can be exacerbated by non-physical causes such as fear, anxiety, grief, unresolved guilt,depression ...
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Regulatory Barriers for Adequate Pain Control
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2010-12-01)In 1961 the "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" was adopted by the United Nations to explicitly addressthe need for narcotic drugs to curtail suffering and keep the distribution of these drugs in the control of ...
