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Cancer Pain

Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care, 2008
Cancer pain management is in continuous innovation and new data are available that could change the therapeutical approach and guidelines.There are different fields of research that produce new data and interesting findings. The principal data regard the factors influencing the analgesic response, breakthrough cancer pain management, opioid switching ...
Tseng, Tsui Hwa, Lin, Chia Chin
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Pain and cancer

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1970
Abstract The Cornell Medical Index was used to provide more information regarding the personality disturbance of cancer patients referred to a Pain Clinic. There was no significant correlation between the scores of the Cornell Medical Index and the response to procedures for pain relief of a sample of 54 patients with presistent pain referred from ...
J M, Woodforde, J R, Fielding
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Interventional Pain Treatments for Cancer Pain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008
Cancer pain is prevalent and often multifactorial. For a segment of the cancer pain population, pain control remains inadequate despite full compliance with the WHO analgesic guidelines including use of co‐analgesics. The failure to obtain acceptable pain or symptom relief prompted the inclusion of a fourth step to the WHO analgesic ladder, which ...
Paul J, Christo, Danesh, Mazloomdoost
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Pain and pain generation in pancreatic cancer

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, 2008
Pain can be a frequent symptom during the natural history of a patient with pancreatic cancer. An increase in incidence with disease progression and the presence of unbearable pain may preclude a curative resection.Even in those patients with resectable pancreatic cancer, the presence of pain has an impact on prognosis.
Di Mola F. F., Di Sebastiano P.
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The treatment of cancer pain

Drugs of Today, 2004
Pain is probably one of the most common cancer symptoms. In addition to being a major source of suffering and disability, cancer pain is extremely frightening for patients and their families. This review discusses the current options for treating cancer pain, focusing on the pharmacological agents currently available and briefly exploring some of the ...
Konstantin V, Slavin   +2 more
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The Epidemiology of Cancer Pain

Cancer Investigation, 2005
We identified 28 epidemiological surveys by applying a sensitive search in Medline and CancerLit databases, supplemented by hand searches. Only two surveys enrolled more than 10,000 patients with cancer. The remaining were hospital or clinic-based surveys of at most a few hundred patients. Fourteen surveys were conducted in the United States.
Leonidas C, Goudas   +4 more
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Evaluation and assessment of cancer pain and cancer pain treatment

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2001
Evaluation and assessment are the first steps of any strategy for the management of cancer pain, and are fundamental for any clinical research project in this field. Different clinical systems for evaluation and classification of cancer pain syndromes are available and their clinical usefulness should be tested.
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Management of cancer pain

Neurosurgery, 1979
This paper provides an overview of the current status of the management of cancer pain. The concept of "total care" of the patient with cancer incorporates an effort to eradicate or suppress the underlying malignancy, but when this is no longer feasible emphasis is shifted to symptom control to maximize the quality of remaining life.
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