Cancer incidence in Latin America is lower than Europe or the United States but morbidity and mortality rates are disproportionately high. A barrier to adequate pain control inadequate assessment, which a relatively easy inexpensive metric. The objective of this narrative review describe assessment for cancer patients America. Cultural factors may influence perception, including contextualizing...

Pain is a common and often disabling problem in cancer patients. Estimates indicate that pain is experienced by 25% of newly diagnosed cancer patients and by 60% to 90% of patients with advanced cancer [2]. In the past, it was believed that treatments that cured cancer would eliminate pain. It is now recognized that, even after effective cancer treatment, many patients continue to experience pa...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess whether a case-based cancer pain education module would lead to acquisition and retention of knowledge and attitudes at the graduate nursing student level. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pretest, post-test, and follow-up. SETTING Three nursing schools in the New England area. SAMPLE 92 graduate nursing students. METHODS An oncology nurse specialist delivered seve...

introduction: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of bone palliative therapy following administration of 153sm-edtmp in patients with intractable metastatic bone pain. methods: sixteen patients (9 male, 7 female) aged 29-80 years (57.3±16.7 years) with severe metastasis-related bone pain resistant to analgesic medications were enrolled in the study. all...

Introduction. A decrease in nutrition of cancer patients affects all vital functions the body, which is, according to numerous studies, typical with gastrointestinal disturbances. Materials and methods. The study was set out investigate effect correcting protein-energy malnutrition on symptoms manifestation, including pain, fatigue, sleep disorder, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, constipation ...

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Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world and pain is its most common symptom. Pain can be brought about by several different causes including local effects of the tumor, regional or distant spread of the tumor, or from anti-cancer treatment. Patients with lung cancer experience more symptom distress than patients with other types of cancer. Symptoms such as pain may be associated with...

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...

Pain is the most frequent and distressing symptom in cancer patients. As part of a worldwide effort to improve the quality of pain control, several clinical guidelines for the management of cancer pain have been published and revised in the last decade. The Japanese Society of Palliative Medicine first published a Japanese clinical guideline for the management of cancer pain in 2000. Since then...