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S Kaasa

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Articles 181
Citations 6970
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Oncology
General Medicine
Critical Care
Top 10 Co-Authors
J H Loge
K Bjordal
P Klepstad
M J Hjermstad
P C Borchgrevink
M Sullivan
M Ahlner-Elmqvist
M S Jordhoy
P M Fayers
A Caraceni
Published In
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
Eur J Cancer
Ann Oncol
Palliat Med
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand
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Recent Articles
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Health networking on cancer in the European Union: a 'green paper' by the EU Joint Action on Networks of Expertise (JANE)
Casali P, Antoine-Poirel H, Berrocoso S, Blay J, Dubois T, Ferrari A, et al.
ESMO Open . 2025 Jan; 10(2):104126. PMID: 39874899
Health networking is in principle a formidable instrument to address many challenges posed by cancer, one of the two most common and most lethal non-communicable chronic diseases. The European Union...
2.
Validation of the European Oncology toolkit for the self-assessment of Quality of Life (EUonQoL-Kit) in cancer patients and survivors: study protocol of a pan European survey
Apolone G, Costantini M, Caselli L, Bos N, Caraceni A, Ciliberto G, et al.
BMC Public Health . 2024 Dec; 24(1):3517. PMID: 39696103
Background: European cancer programmes and policies lack a unified health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment tool. The European oncology quality of life toolkit (EUonQoL-Kit) is a novel set of HRQoL...
3.
Reply to the Letter to the Editor "A simple way of doing the complex but utmost important things: cancer pain management" by S. Singhal, M. Verma and D. Kukreja
Fallon M, Caraceni A, Laird B, Kaasa S
Ann Oncol . 2023 Apr; 34(5):496-497. PMID: 37121609
No abstract available.
4.
ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care (ESMO DCs): education, research and programme development survey
Kreye G, Lundeby T, Latino N, Galotti M, Kaasa S
ESMO Open . 2022 Nov; 7(6):100622. PMID: 36356414
Background: The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Designated Centres (DCs) of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care is an incentive programme established in 2003 aiming to improve the integration of...
5.
Health-related quality of life in patients with advanced melanoma treated with ipilimumab: prognostic implications and changes during treatment
Aamdal E, Skovlund E, Jacobsen K, Straume O, Kersten C, Herlofsen O, et al.
ESMO Open . 2022 Sep; 7(5):100588. PMID: 36116420
Background: We have previously reported that the safety and efficacy of ipilimumab in real-world patients with metastatic melanoma were comparable to clinical trials. Few studies have explored health-related quality of...
6.
An international, open-label, randomised trial comparing a two-step approach versus the standard three-step approach of the WHO analgesic ladder in patients with cancer
Fallon M, Dierberger K, Leng M, Hall P, Allende S, Sabar R, et al.
Ann Oncol . 2022 Sep; 33(12):1296-1303. PMID: 36055465
Background: Worldwide, cancer pain management follows the World Health Organization (WHO) three-step analgesic ladder. Using weak opioids (e.g. codeine) at step 2 is debatable with low-dose strong opioids being potentially...
7.
Elderly gynaecological cancer patients at risk for poor end of life care: a population-based study from the Swedish Register of Palliative Care
Lindemann K, Martinsson L, Kaasa S, Lindquist D
Acta Oncol . 2020 Apr; 59(6):636-643. PMID: 32238040
Poorer end-of-life (EOL) care for elderly cancer patients has been reported. We assessed the impact of age on 13 indicators for the quality of EOL care as well as adherence...
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Which factors can aid clinicians to identify a risk of pain during the following month in patients with bone metastases? A longitudinal analyses
Habberstad R, Hjermstad M, Brunelli C, Kaasa S, Bennett M, Pardon K, et al.
Support Care Cancer . 2018 Aug; 27(4):1335-1343. PMID: 30105665
Purpose: Explore clinical factors associated with higher pain intensity and future pain in patients with bone metastases to identify patients who can benefit from closer follow-up or pain-modifying interventions. Methods:...
9.
Development and course of chronic pain over 4 years in the general population: The HUNT pain study
Landmark T, Dale O, Romundstad P, Woodhouse A, Kaasa S, Borchgrevink P
Eur J Pain . 2018 May; 22(9):1606-1616. PMID: 29754398
Background: Epidemiological studies of chronic pain frequently report high prevalence estimates. However, there is little information about the development and natural course of chronic pain. Methods: We followed a random...
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European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) position paper on supportive and palliative care
Jordan K, Aapro M, Kaasa S, Ripamonti C, Scotte F, Strasser F, et al.
Ann Oncol . 2017 Dec; 29(1):36-43. PMID: 29253069
Oncology has come a long way in addressing patients' quality of life, together with developing surgical, radio-oncological and medical anticancer therapies. However, the multiple and varying needs of patients are...