ArticleJournal of palliative medicine2012
Dyspnea in palliative care: expanding the role of corticosteroids.
Article in Journal of palliative medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Outcomes of Immunosuppressant Drugs in Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2026Pooled it
- Systemic corticosteroids for the management of cancer-related breathlessness (dyspnoea) in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effect of dexamethasone on dyspnoea in patients with cancer (ABCD): a parallel-group, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial.The Lancet. Oncology · 2022Trial
- Dexamethasone for Dyspnea in Cancer Patients: A Pilot Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2016Trial
- Corticosteroids in lung cancer.Frontiers in drug safety and regulation · 2025Review
- Glucocorticoid Effect in Cancer Patients.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Do Patients Benefit from a Trial of Corticosteroids at the End of Life?Current treatment options in oncology · 2022Review
- Review
- Association of Systemic Steroid Treatment and Outcome in Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Real-World Analysis.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Exploring the immune-checkpoint inhibitors' efficacy/tolerability in special non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) populations: focus on steroids and autoimmune disease.Translational lung cancer research · 2021Review
- Review
- Unanswered questions and future direction in the management of terminal breathlessness in patients with cancer.ESMO open · 2020Review
- [Progress of Steroids Effect on Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2019Article
- Metastatic pancreatic carcinoma masquerading as cystic lung disease: a rare presentation.Respirology case reports · 2017Article
- Effect of Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy on the Efficacy and Safety of Nivolumab in the Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
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Abstract
Dyspnea is one of the most common symptoms in advanced cancer patients at the end of their life. It is often multifactorial with diverse malignant, nonmalignant, and cancer treatment related etiologies. Oxygen, opiates, and anxiolytics are commonly administered. Here a complex case of progressive dyspnea and its treatments in a patient with advanced pancreatic cancer is described, and its multiple potential contributing causes are identified and clinical responses evaluated. Literature review is conducted on pulmonary drug toxicity and tumor lymphangitic spread, and the role of corticosteroids in relieving dyspnea in the palliative care setting.
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