BACKGROUND Despite the availability of effective medications and clinical guidelines for pain management, pain control is suboptimal in a sizeable proportion of patients with cancer pain. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines recommend a comprehensive and multimodal approach for management of cancer pain. We developed a mobile phone application, ePAL, based on clinical guidelines...

Pain is a prevalent condition in patients with cancer, particularly in advanced stages of cancer. Although strong opioids are the mainstay of cancer pain management protocols, patients are often undertreated. Transdermal buprenorphine is currently available for the treatment of moderate to severe cancer pain and severe pain which does not respond to nonopioid analgesics; patch doses of 35, 52.5...

Background: A comprehensive approach to pain management often requires multimodal therapy and a combination of medications. Oncology patients may be prescribed methadone duloxetine as single agents or in for cancer-related pain, particularly neuropathic pain. Duloxetine is also depression anxiety with cancer.

introduction: with regard to the importance of life quality (lq) in patients with cancer, especially breast cancer, and research conflicts about quality and quantity of the effect of counseling on lq promotion in such patients and for determining the effect of group counseling on symptom scales of lq in patients with breast cancer treated by chemotherapy, this study was carried out at the at th...

BACKGROUND How metastatic cancer initially presents is largely unknown. AIM To identify clinical features of metastatic cancer in primary care. DESIGN AND SETTING Case-control study in 11 general practices in Devon, UK. METHOD Cases of patients who had died with metastatic breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer were selected. In addition, two control groups were formed of patients with th...

BACKGROUND Pain management after abdominal surgery is a critical issue in cancer patients undergoing laparotomy. Opioid analgesics commonly used postoperatively have significant side effects and can postpone restoring normal life. Administration of analgesics before the surgery by inhibiting pain cascades may be an effective method for more efficient pain control. OBJECTIVES This study aimed ...

OBJECTIVE To describe a successful experience with a high dose (1000 microg/hr) of transdermal fentanyl for cancer pain relief. CASE REPORT A 62-year-old man suffering from rectal carcinoma was treated by our home care hospice unit during his last 3.5 months of life. At admission to our home care unit, he suffered mostly from severe anal pain (verbal pain scale of 10/10) due to advanced disea...

the aim of this randomized clinical study was to investigate the effectiveness of acetaminophen 650 mg or liquefied ibuprofen 400 mg in pain control of orthodontic patients during separation with an elastic separator. a total of 101 patients with specific inclusion criteria were divided randomly into three groups (acetaminophen, liquefied ibuprofen, and placebo). they were instructed to take th...

BACKGROUND The European Pain in Cancer survey sought to increase understanding of cancer-related pain and treatment across Europe. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with all stages of cancer participated in a two-phase telephone survey conducted in 11 European countries and Israel in 2006-2007. The survey screened for patients experiencing pain at least weekly, then randomly selected adult patien...

conclusions a single preoperative oral dose of pregabalin, acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and naproxen one hour before surgery is an effective method for reducing postoperative pain and morphine consumption in patients undergoing radical neck dissection. background preemptive analgesia may be considered as a method not only to alleviate postoperative pain but also to decrease analgesic consum...