Objective
Pain, depression and fatigue are subjective clinical manifestations of advanced cancer. Control of these symptoms is pivotal for quality of life of millions of palliative care patients. Pain is the most feared symptom for many patients. the prevalence of depression varies from 6-58% in palliative care patients, reflecting lack of standardised calidated methodology for its assessment in these patients.
Cachexia is likely to be the most important contributor to fatigue in palliative care. The plethora of other symptoms, comorbidities and the high age of most palliative patients support the need for evidence based management strategies. To improve management of pain, depression and cachexia in cancer patients it is necessary to provide new knowledge through research in several areas.
The research plan of the EPCRC will be based upon questions raised in the clinic, with focus on cancer palliative care patients, thus a "true" translated approach is chosen. The research will focus both on diagnosis and classification of these symptoms and understanding fo the underlying (causes) of their biology. to reach the aims of EPCRC it requires a multidisciplinary approach including basic scientists and clinicians that will translate human genome data into practical applications for these patients.
Assessment and classification of pain, depression and cachexia (fatigue) are the basis for diagnosis and subsequent treatment. By use of modern methods of molecular biology in the project we will increase the understanding og the role of genetic variability for pain and cachexia. European evidence based internet guidelines will be developed by members of the EPCRC supported by an international advisory board.
By recruiting a pan European panel, cultural, social and language barriers will be taken into consideration in the early phase of the guideline development.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6
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TRONDHEIM
Norway
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