Cancer pain

Cancer Pain

A. Recognize that pain management is part of a broader therapeutic endeavor known as palliative care. Know that palliative care is defined as the active, total care of the patient with active, progressive, life threatening disease. Recognize that palliative care involves a variety of health care professionals. Know that palliative care provides a model for continuing management including contro...

cancer pain; physical factors affecting pain experience

background: pain adversely affects cancer patients quality of life . knowing different sources of pain helps physicians and patients to manage it. the aim of this study was investigating physical factors affecting pain in iranian cancer patients. method: this cross-sectional study randomly enrolled cancer patients who were newly admitted to the medical oncology department of cancer institute of...

Cancer pain syndromes and pharmacotherapy of cancer pain

Challenges in cancer pain management--bone pain.

Whilst not strictly a neuropathic injury, cancer-induced bone pain (CIBP) is a unique state with features of neuropathy and inflammation. Recent work has demonstrated that osteoclasts damage peripheral nerves (peptidergic C fibres and SNS) within trabeculated bone leading to deafferentation. In addition, glia cell activation and neuronal hyperexcitability within the dorsal horn, are all similar...

Interventional pain treatments for cancer pain.

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 includes advanced interventional approaches. Int...