BACKGROUND Pain is a common symptom in cancer patients. Acupuncture is a suggested treatment for a wide range of clinical conditions, usually for its beneficial effects on pain control. Si guan xue (the four points) have been widely used in clinical practice, and has shown that it is highly effective, effective in obtaining qi, shows strong acupuncture stimulation, and is simple to manipulate a...

AIM To investigate the association between postoperative pain control and oncologic outcomes in resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). METHODS From January 2009 to December 2014, 221 patients were diagnosed with PDAC and underwent resection with curative intent. Retrospective review of the patients was performed based on electronic medical records system. One patient without record...

Chronic pain has a significant impact on sufferers’ quality of life. Furthermore, treatment inadequacies are often reported in the literatures. This study aims to investigate prevalence different dosing behaviors analgesics use chronic, non-cancer and their correlation control. is cross-sectional convenience sampling method was applied. Brief Pain Inventory- Short Form Management Index computed...

Pain often accompanies cancer and most current therapies for treating cancer pain have significant unwanted side effects. Targeting nerve growth factor (NGF) or its cognate receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase A (TrkA) has become an attractive target for attenuating chronic pain. In the present report, we use a mouse model of bone cancer pain and examine whether oral administration of a selecti...

PURPOSE barriers to managing cancer pain contribute to cancer patients' reluctance to report pain and use prescribed analgesics, resulting in inadequate pain control. Patients' perceived barriers to managing cancer pain may be influenced by culture. This meta-analysis compared differences in Western and Asian patient-perceived barriers to managing cancer pain. METHODS the literature was syste...

This article is about I Russian scientific and practical conference with the international participation Actual questions of chronic pain management held on May 13-14 in Krasnoyarsk. The was organized by Federal State Budgetary Institution Healthcare Scientific Practical Center Medical Biological Agency Russia, KrasSMU, Association Interventional Pain Treatment. Speakers from nine cities discus...

During recent years, the national policy of the United Kingdom has increasingly recognized the central place of general practitioners (GPs) in the care of cancer patients, from screening and early diagnosis through to palliative care and bereavement. There are, however, continuing reports of poor control of pain and other symptoms in the community. To investigate general practitioners' prescrib...

Common adverse symptoms of cancer and chemotherapy are a major health burden; chief among these is pain, with opioids including transdermal fentanyl the mainstay of treatment. Innate immune activation has been implicated generally in pain, opioid analgesia, cognitive dysfunction, and sickness type symptoms reported by cancer patients. We aimed to determine if genetic polymorphisms in neuroimmun...

BACKGROUND Pain affects more than 70% of cancer patients but is often undertreated. METHODS The authors review and present methodologies to maximize proper palliative approaches to this symptom for the majority of patients. RESULTS The World Health Organization's stepwise guide to pain control serves as an excellent basis for management. Around-the-clock dosing, using adjuvant treatments, a...