Cancer pain is highly prevalent and often severe. Fortunately, most cancer pain can be readily managed, with up to 90% of patients responding well to standard interventions. However, breakthrough cancer pain-brief flares of severe pain superimposed on baseline pain-is common, difficult to manage, and often negatively impacts patients' quality of life. Breakthrough cancer pain is traditionally m...

Objective: Patients’ lack of knowledge cancer pain management affects outcomes. This study compared the effectiveness achieved in a previous retrospective (“P-group”), which hospitalized individuals received no education, with by 2 groups. One group information via video sessions (“V-group”) and other face-to-face coaching (“F-group”). The study’s secondary aims were to compare interventions’ p...

Pain is a significant problem for cancer patients and is of particular concern for the elderly. This article reports on the development and implementation of a pain management educational intervention for elderly cancer patients and their family caregivers. This patient education program was developed within a research study funded by the American Cancer Society. Subjects were stratified as eit...

TREATMENT of chronic pain in patients with a history of opioid addiction is difficult since tolerance to the opioid agonist effects may require extremely large opioid doses for pain control. Furthermore, insufficient pain control may be hard to discern from craving for more opioids. Although drug-free periods, also called “drug holiday,” can reestablish sensitivity to drugs used to treat Parkin...

Control of cancer pain is within the capabilities of most veterinarians and is achievable in most animal patients that have cancer with techniques that are currently available. Great satisfaction can be derived from not only treating the pet's cancer but its pain. Incorporating pain management into oncology practice is good for the well-being of the pet, the owner, the staff, the veterinarians,...

To the Editor: Although therapeutics for the treatment of pain have developed considerably in the last few years, they still may fail to alleviate pain in cancer patients or become associated with significant undesirable side effects. Pain because of pancreatic cancer may be an example of such an instance. Patients with locally advanced or advanced pancreatic cancer often require increasing dos...

BACKGROUND Pain is often poorly controlled in cancer patients. Chronic pain affects adult patients at all stages of cancer management. Optimal pain management may require attention to psychosocial variables and the inclusion of nonpharmacological techniques. METHODS Three nonpharmacological strategies that are effective in reducing pain caused by cancer--patient psycho-education, supportive p...

abstract background: primary dysmenorrhea may lead to severe anxiety and pain relief during menstruation may reduce the anxiety levels. this study was aimed to determine the effect of acupressure at third liver and placebo points on the anxiety level in patients with primary dysmenorrhea. materials and methods: this clinical trial was conducted in parallel in the control and treatment groups fo...