Systematic Reviews of Palliative Care Medications

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence of the effectiveness of medications used in palliative care.

Reviewed December 201

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Title:   Medically assisted hydration to assist palliative care patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 2, 2008, there has been no change to the conclusions since the first version was published. It is common for palliative care patients to have reduced fluid intake durin...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Laxatives or methylnaltrexone for the management of constipation in palliative care patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Palliative care patients commonly experience constipation. This is as a result of the use of medications (in particular opioids) for pain control, as well as disease, dietary and mobility factors. This review aimed to determine the effectiveness of laxa...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Drug therapy for pain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or motor neuron disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is the most common neurodegenerative disorder of the motor system in adults. Pain is a frequent symptom and may have a pronounced impact on quality of life and suffering. Des...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Droperidol for the treatment of nausea and vomiting (sickness) in people with advanced disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Nausea (a feeling of sickness) and vomiting are common and distressing symptoms for people with advanced cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Several medications to control these symptoms are available. Droperidol is one example which has been u...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Chemotherapy (anticancer drugs) prolongs survival in patients with advanced small cell lung cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   SmalI cell lung cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all new cases of lung cancer. This cancer is often diagnosed after it has spread to the brain, liver, bone or bone marrow and most patients die in the first year after diagnosis. This review found ...
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Haloperidol for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We did not identify any randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to find out if haloperidol is a useful drug for the treatment of nausea or vomiting in palliative care patients. Nausea and vomiting are common problems for patients with serious life threateni...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Second-line chemotherapy may increase survival of patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer that have failed a first chemotherapy treatment.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with metastatic or advanced colorectal cancer are often treated with chemotherapy. If the disease doesn't improve with a specific chemotherapy regimen, a different chemotherapy regimen may be tried, called second-line treatment, with the aim to...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Using Methadone (an opioid drug) in relieving cancer pain.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pain is a common and debilitating symptom of cancer. Methadone is an opioid drug used to treat cancer pain, and can be given by mouth as liquid, tablet or capsule, via the rectum as a suppository, or injected into the vein, muscle or under the skin. Thi...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Ketamine as an adjuvant to opioids for cancer pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The benefits and harms of adding ketamine to strong pain-killers such as morphine for the relief of cancer pain are not yet established. Morphine-like drugs (opioids) are frequently prescribed for moderate and severe cancer pain, but in some cases these...
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Additional chemotherapy with doxorubicin marginally improves tumour response but increases side effects with no improvement in survival
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Doxorubicin is commonly used as palliative chemotherapy for patients with advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (cancer of muscle/tendon/fat/blood vessel). This review was conducted to find out if combining doxorubicin with other drugs is more effe...
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Drug therapy for anxiety in palliative care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Currently there is no evidence on the role of drugs in the treatment of anxiety associated with terminal illness. Anxiety is a common symptom associated with patients near the end of life. As with other areas of palliative care, the majority of availabl...
Date:   Oct 2003
Title:   Not enough evidence to give a second round of chemotherapy to patients with lung cancer in a poor state
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with lung cancer and a good physical condition who have not been cured by a first round of chemotherapy often receive a second round of chemotherapy (second-line). A second round of chemotherapy may not increase the survival chances of these pa...
Date:   Jul 2001
Title:   Benzodiazepines and related drugs for insomnia in palliative care
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Still awaiting evidence about whether benzodiazepines used to aid sleep help or hinder patients with incurable diseases. Benzodiazepines are the drugs most often used to aid sleep. Doctors agree that occasional short-term use can be helpful but do not r...
Date:   Jun 2001
Title:   Opioids (chemical substance) for palliation for breathlessness in terminal illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is evidence in favour of using oral or injectable opioid drugs for the palliative treatment of breathlessness. Breathlessness is common in people with advanced disease and opioid drugs are often used to treat it. A review to assess the effectivene...
Date:   Apr 2001
Title:   Treatments for melanoma (an aggressive type of skin cancer) that has spread to other tissues.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There are no randomised trials comparing the effects of systemic therapies for metastatic cutaneous melanoma with best supportive care or placebo. Cutaneous melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. When it has spread (metastatic cutaneous me...
Date:   Feb 2000
Title:   Chemotherapy can improve survival rates for non-small cell lung cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. The standard treatment for small tumours is surgery (operation to remove the tumour) or surgery and radiotherapy (x-ray treatment). Where the tumour has spread within the chest, standard...
Date:   Jan 2000
Title:   Chemotherapy improves the survival of people with advanced colorectal cancer, but the adverse effects and impact on quality of life are not yet known.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Colorectal (bowel) cancer is common worldwide, but can often be treated effectively with surgery. In some people, however, the cancer returns and sometimes also spread to other parts of the body. When this happens, chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) can b...
Date:   Nov 1999

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