Kasr Al-Ainy Palliative Medicine

🌿 Palliative Care Course at the 18th BGICC – Compassionate Cancer Care Guided by ESMO Standards 🤝
Led by international expert Prof. Samy AlSirafy, this essential course focuses on improving quality of life for cancer patients through evidence-based palliative care practices.
📚 Topics Include (Based on ESMO Guidelines):
- Cancer pain management
- Delirium in adult cancer patients
- Cancer-related fatigue & cachexia
- Constipation & breathlessness in advanced cancer
- Anorexia management
- End-of-life care strategies
💡 Designed for oncologists, palliative care specialists, and healthcare professionals committed to holistic cancer care.
📅 Be part of the movement toward dignified, patient-centered support in oncology.
🔗 Register now: https://bgicc.net/

Egypt ranks 138 out of 201 countries based on the WHO’s 14 indicators for palliative-care development. It is classified as “Emerging,” meaning minimal or absent PC development, often lacking basic policy, services, education, and access to medicines.

https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(25)00748-1/fulltext

https://jnccn.org/view/journals/jnccn/23/11/article-e257114.xml

Authors’ Reply to the Letter to the Editor by Giusti et al: Olanzapine for Cachexia—Short-Term Benefit, Long-Term Questions "Authors’ Reply to the Letter to the Editor by Giusti et al: Olanzapine for Cachexia—Short-Term Benefit, Long-Term Questions" published on Nov 2025 by National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Congratulations to Dr. Nada Othman on the publication of her doctoral research, conducted at the Palliative Medicine Unit of Kasr Al-Ainy, in the esteemed Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN).

Olanzapine for Anorexia in Patients With Incurable Cancer and Cachexia (OlAnCa): A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial Background: Pharmacologic options for managing anorexia in cancer cachexia are limited. This trial aimed to evaluate the efficacy of olanzapine in alleviating anorexia in patients with incurable cancer and cachexia. Methods: This double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial included adult pati...

Relieve the suffering: palliative care for the next decade Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).1–3 More than 73 million people worldwide experience seri...

A significant number of family caregivers of newly diagnosed incurable cancer patients in Egypt experience a considerable caregiver burden, which correlates with depressive symptoms and lower quality of life (QoL).

يعاني عدد كبير من مقدمي الرعاية من العائله لمرضى السرطان المتقدم الذين تم تشخيصهم حديثًا في مصر من عبء كبير في تقديم الرعاية، والذي يرتبط بأعراض الاكتئاب وانخفاض نوعية الحياة.

Burden, Depression and Quality of Life in Carers of Newly Diagnosed Advanced Cancer Patients in Egypt The goal of palliative care (PC) is to improve the quality of life (QoL) of patients with life-limiting illnesses as well as their families. Ideally, PC is integrated early in the course of life-limiting illnesses. Less attention has been paid to the need for early PC for family caregivers (FCs) in....

Link to KA-PMU publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qdagpygAAAAJ

Dear Kasr Al-Ainy 4th year Medical Students.
This is the link to the question bank contining questions about the palliative medicine part of the Palliative Medicine module.
Best wishes

KA Palliat Med; Q Bank, Undergrad, Student v. (4-Jun-23).pdf

Dear Kasr Al-Ainy 4th year Medical Students.
Thank you for attending the Palliative Medicine Course.
This is the link to the summary of the lectures.
Best wishes.

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Congratulations to Dr. Nada Osama for passing her doctoral thesis defence on 15-Apr-2023

1294TiP Olanzapine for anorexia in cancer cachexia patients: A placebo-controlled randomized trial Cancer-associated cachexia (CAC) is a complex multifactorial syndrome. Various antipsychotics have been associated with weight gain, especially olanzapine (OLZ) which is suggested to have a role in the management of CAC. It remains unclear whether OLZ has an ameliorating effect on cancer patients’...

New publication from Kasr Al-Ainy Palliative Medicine in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care journal

Palliative care journal publications by country as a metric for palliative care development level Objective There is a growing interest in developing a scientific research metric to assess the level of palliative care (PC) development in countries. This study assesses a metric based on publishing in specialised PC journals as an indicator for the level of PC development. Methods A 3-year average...