British Pain Society Pain Rating Scale
The British Pain Society has provided a pain rating scale to assist with the assessment of pain.
The British Pain Society has provided a pain rating scale to assist with the assessment of pain.
Recommendations on the prevention, identification and management of neutropenic sepsis in cancer patients.
The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) scale assesses the more complex activities of daily living necessary for living in the community, such as shopping, cooking and managing finances. These skills are usually lost before other activities of daily living functions are, such as bathing, dressing and eating.
The results of a reassessment of the nationally approved list of drugs made available through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) have been announced by NHS England. They confirm that Imnovid® (pomalidomide) for relapsed and refractory myeloma patients; Revlimid as a second-line treatment, and Velcade® as treatment for multiply relapsed Velcade-naive patients will remain on the list whereas…
In this guidance NICE outlines recommendations for the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for the treatment of anaemia in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
This guideline outlines recommendations for the diagnosis and investigation of patients with suspected AL amyloidosis.
These guidelines outline recommendations for the management of patients with AL amyloidosis, including treatment, monitoring and how to measure response.
These updated guidelines, produced by the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) and the UK Myeloma Forum, summarise a national consensus of the haematological community involved in the diagnosis and management of myeloma patients. They should be read in conjunction with the BCSH Guidelines on the supportive care of myeloma patients. Bird et al.…
These guidelines, produced by the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) and the UK Myeloma Forum, summarise a national consensus of the haematological community involved in the supportive care of myeloma patients and should be read in conjunction with the BCSH Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of myeloma.
This paper, written by an expert panel on behalf of the European Myeloma Network, reviews the available evidence and provides recommendations for the management of newly diagnosed myeloma patients.