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Overview

Russell K. Portenoy is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their work is situated primarily within the field of Medicine, with a total of 89 publications. Major subfields of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Research topics frequently addressed in their publications encompass:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on clinical oncology, palliative care, and pain management, including studies such as:

  • Improvements in Survival and Clinical Benefit With Gemcitabine as First-Line Therapy for Patients With Advanced Pancreas Cancer: A Randomized Trial (2023) published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Family Meetings in Palliative Care: Benefits and Barriers (2022) published in Current Treatment Options in Oncology
  • Safety and Benefit of Discontinuing Statin Therapy in the Setting of Advanced, Life-Limiting Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2020) published in UNC Libraries
  • Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Advance Care Planning Among Underserved Chinese-American Immigrants (2020) published in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • Prescription Opioids Dispensed to Patients with Cancer with Bone Metastasis: 2011-2017 (2021) published in The Oncologist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Portenoy include:

  • Lara Dhingra
  • Stephanie DiFiglia
  • Rachel W. Linnemann
  • Maria Berdella
  • Catherine Kier

Portenoy's work has been disseminated predominantly through journals such as the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and UNC Libraries. The highest number of their publications appear in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.

Best Publications

  • Improvements in survival and clinical benefit with gemcitabine as first-line therapy for patients with advanced pancreas cancer: a randomized trial.

    H A Burris;M J Moore;J Andersen;M R Green

  • Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Miroslav Backonja;John T. Farrar

  • Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain

    Roger Chou;Gilbert J. Fanciullo;Perry G. Fine;Jeremy A. Adler

  • The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale: an instrument for the evaluation of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress

    R.K. Portenoy;H.T. Thaler;A.B. Kornblith;J. McCarthy Lepore

  • Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

    Geoffrey W. C. Hanks;Nathan I. Cherny;Nicholas A. Christakis;Marie T. Fallon

  • Impact of Cancer-Related Fatigue on the Lives of Patients: New Findings From the Fatigue Coalition

    Gregory A. Curt;William Breitbart;David Cella;Jerome E. Groopman

  • Management of cancer pain

    Russell K Portenoy;Pauline Lesage

  • Breakthrough pain: definition, prevalence and characteristics

    Russell K. Portenoy;Neil A. Hagen

  • Defining the clinically important difference in pain outcome measures

    John T. Farrar;Russell K. Portenoy;Jesse A. Berlin;Judith L. Kinman

  • Chronic use of opioid analgesics in non-malignant pain: Report of 38 cases

    Russell K. Portenoy;Kathleen M. Foley

  • Breakthrough pain: characteristics and impact in patients with cancer pain

    Russell K. Portenoy;David Payne;Paul Jacobsen

  • Symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress in a cancer population

    R. K. Portenoy;H. T. Thaler;A. B. Kornblith;J. McCarthy Lepore

  • Opioids and the treatment of chronic pain: controversies, current status, and future directions.

    Andrew Rosenblum;Lisa A. Marsch;Herman Joseph;Russell K. Portenoy

  • An international survey of cancer pain characteristics and syndromes

    Augusto Caraceni;Russell K. Portenoy

  • The nature of opioid responsiveness and its implications for neuropathic pain: new hypotheses derived from studies of opioid infusions.

    Russell K. Portenoy;Kathleen M. Foley;Kathleen M. Foley;Charles E. Inturrisi

  • Character of terminal illness in the advanced cancer patient: pain and other symptoms during the last four weeks of life.

    Nessa Coyle;Jean Adelhardt;Kathleen M. Foley;Russell K. Portenoy

  • A phase II trial of gemcitabine in patients with 5-FU-refractory pancreas cancer

    M. L. Rothenberg;M. J. Moore;M. C. Cripps;J. S. Andersen

  • Opioid therapy for chronic nonmalignant pain: a review of the critical issues

    Russell K. Portenoy

  • Controlled-release oxycodone for pain in diabetic neuropathy: A randomized controlled trial

    Joseph S. Gimbel;Patricia Richards;Russell K. Portenoy

  • The measurement of symptoms in children with cancer.

    John J. Collins;Maura E. Byrnes;Ira J. Dunkel;Jeanne Lapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen M. Foley
Kathleen M. Foley Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eduardo Bruera
Eduardo Bruera The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Stein Kaasa
Stein Kaasa Oslo University Hospital
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University
Howard T. Thaler
Howard T. Thaler Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Richard B. Lipton
Richard B. Lipton Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John T. Farrar
John T. Farrar University of Pennsylvania
Charles S. Cleeland
Charles S. Cleeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
David C. Currow
David C. Currow Flinders University
William Breitbart
William Breitbart Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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