Pain frequently accompanies cancer. What remains unclear is why this pain frequently becomes more severe and difficult to control with disease progression. Here we test the hypothesis that with disease progression, sensory nerve fibers that innervate the tumor-bearing tissue undergo a pathological sprouting and reorganization, which in other nonmalignant pathologies has been shown to generate a...

Despite tremendous progress in medicine during last couple of decades, cancer still remains the most horrifying diagnosis for anybody due to its almost inevitable futility. According to American Cancer Society Statistics, it is estimated that only in the United States more than half a million people will die from cancer in 2006. For those who survive, probably the most fearsome symptom regardle...

Cancer pain is complex and multifactorial. Most cancer pain can be effectively controlled using analgesics in accordance to the WHO analgesic ladder. However, in a small but significant percentage of cancer patients, systemic analgesics fail to provide adequate control of cancer pain. These cancer patients can also suffer from intolerable adverse effects of drug therapy or intractable cancer pa...

abstract background and aims: one of the complications of breast cancer treatment is ipsilateral upper extremity lymphedema. secondary lymphedema is a chronic condition that leads to loss of function and disorder of quality of life. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of complex decongestive physical therapy (cdp) on pain severity and quality of life in patients with secondary upp...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of pain in cancer patients at different disease statuses, the impact of pain on physical and psychiatric functions of patients and the satisfaction of pain control of patients at outpatient clinic department in Taiwan. METHODS Short form of the Brief Pain Inventory was used as the outcome questionnaire. Unselected patients of different cancers and diffe...

Objective: To explore the effect of perioperative pain intervention on postoperative rehabilitation patients who underwent thoracoscopic partial resection of lung cancer. Methods: From January 2021 to May 2021, 100 with primary lung cancer who underwent in Cardiopulmonary Department II of Cancer Center our hospital were selected. They divided into observation group and control group by ra...

The effect of Donabedian three-dimensional quality evaluation model is explored for the high-quality nursing during perioperative period endoscopic mucosal dissection in early gastric cancer male patients. Seventy-eight patients were randomly grouped as 39 cases control having received routine care, while intervention group care combined with model. Clinical recovery indicators including anxiet...

Cancer pain impairs the quality of life of cancer patients, but opioid analgesics can not only cause inhibition of respiratory function, and constipation, but also other significant side effects such as addiction and tolerance that further decrease quality of life. Thus, in the present study, the effects of electro-acupuncture treatment (EA) on mechanical allodynia were examined in cancer pain ...