P A L L I A T I V E: M E D I C I N E:
EDITED BY JONATHAN PICKARD JONATHAN H I NDMARSH
OXFORD
,Oxford Case Histories
in Palliative Medicine
,Oxford Case Histories
Series Editors:
Sarah Pendlebury and Peter Rothwell
Published:
Anaesthesia (Jon McCormack, Keith Kelly)
Cardiology (Rajkumar Rajendram, Javed Ehtisham, Colin Forfar)
Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Alissa J. Walsh, Otto C. Buchel, Jane Collier,
Simon P. L. Travis)
General Surgery (Judith E. Ritchie, K. Raj Prasad)
Geriatric Medicine (Sanja Thompson, Nicola Lovett, John Grimley Evans, Sarah
Pendlebury)
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (Hilary Humphreys, William Irving,
Bridget Atkins, Andrew Woodhouse)
Lung Cancer (Himender K. Makker, Adam Ainley, Sanjay Popat, Julian Singer,
Martin Hayward, Antke Hagena)
Neurosurgery (Harutomo Hasegawa, Matthew Crocker, Pawan Singh Minhas)
Obstetric Medicine (Charlotte Frise, Krupa Bhalsod, Rebecca Scott, Harry
Gibson)
Oncology (Thankamma Ajithkumar, Adrian Harnett, Tom Roques)
Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (Kristijonas Milinis, Thomas
Hampton, Andrew S. Lau, Sunil D. Sharma)
Respiratory Medicine (John Stradling, Andrew Stanton, Najib M. Rahman,
Annabel H. Nickol, Helen E. Davies)
Rheumatology (Joel David, Anne Miller, Anushka Soni, Lyn Williamson)
Sleep Medicine (Himender Makker, Matthew Walker, Hugh Selsick, Bhik Kotecha,
Ama Johal)
TIA and Stroke (Sarah T. Pendlebury, Ursula G. Schulz, Aneil Malhotra,
Peter M. Rothwell)
, Oxford Case Histories
in Palliative Medicine
Edited by
Jonathan Pickard
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Benedict’s Hospice and
Centre for Specialist Palliative Care, Sunderland, UK
Jonathan Hindmarsh
Accredited Consultant Pharmacist in Palliative and End of
Life Care, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation
Trust and St Benedict’s Hospice and Centre for Specialist
Palliative Care, Sunderland, UK