EPCRC: Improved treatment of pain, depression and fatigue through translation research
Pain, depression and fatigue are subjective clinical manifestations of advanced cancer, affecting large patient groups. Even today, our understanding and management of these symptoms and conditions are insufficient. This project aims at improving the care by addressing diagnosis and classification as well as the underlying mechanisms. This will be done through research in several areas, in cooperation between clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists.
The European Palliative Care Research Collaborative (EPCRC) consists of eight participating centres from six European countries: UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Norway.
The overall objectives are to develop new genetic methods for predicting individual variation of fatigue/Cachexia and response to opioid treatment for pain, and methods for assessment and classification of pain, fatigue (cachexia), and depression.
The collaborative´s proposal was successfully evaluated in 2006 and received EU funding for a three year period.
•Invitation – EAPC 2008 Pre Conference Seminar•
24 - 27 May 2008
"Pain, cachexia and depression in palliative care - genetics, assessment/classification and treatment"
A joint initiative between the EPCRC and the EAPC Research Network
The growing number of palliative care research units worldwide means that more young researchers are involved in this field of medicine. By establishing the junior international forum, a meeting place for PhD students and post. Doc’s and other “young” scientist’s, the EAPC will have the potential for further close collaboration.
Public Health and Palliative care conference in India, 2009
There will be a conference held in India, january 2009. The title of the conference is 1st International Conference
on Public Health and Palliative Care. Please check out the website for full details. http://www.pubhealthpallcare.in
Guidelines for the use of opioid analgesics in the treatment of cancer pain (WP 3.1)
The team working on the guidelines for the use of opioid analgesia in the treatment of cancer pain would welcome your views on what should be included in these guidelines. A 'key points' questionnaire has been designed and circulated to an expert panel and the team would now like your views.
Key Clinical Questions for Guidelines on the Treatment of Depression in Palliative Care
The team working on the guidelines for depression for the palliative care population would welcome your views on what should be included in these guidelines. A 'key points' questionnaire has been circulated to experts and the team members are now eager to get views from the palliative care community.
