منابع مشابه
Cancer pain (classification and pain syndromes).
Inspite the new informations about the physiology and biochemistry of pain, it remains true that pain is only partially understood. Cancer pain is often experienced as several different types of pain, with combined somatic and neuropathic types the most frequently. If the acute cancer pain does not subside with initial therapy, patients experience pain of more constant nature, the characteristi...
متن کاملClassification of cancer pain syndromes.
Cancer patients experience pain in multiple sites and from several pathophysiologies of the symptom complex. The fluctuating nature of cancer pain intensity is a relevant clinical feature and depends on disease patterns and pain mechanisms. Breakthrough pain is defined as episodes of pain that "break through" the control of an otherwise effective analgesic therapy. Traditional ways of classifyi...
متن کاملPain Report #14 Cancer Pain: Etiology, Barriers, Assessment, and Treatment Cancer Pain: Etiology, Barriers, Assessment, and Treatment
Cancer pain affects more than one in four patients with early-stage cancer, and approximately three out of every four patients with advanced disease according to recent statistics (Bennett et al. 2012)(Hearn et al.2003)(Van Den Beuken, 2007)(Higginson, 2010). Cancer pain may result from direct tumor invasion of local tissues, compression or invasion of nerves, metastasis into bone, visceral obs...
متن کاملPain in Advanced Cancer: Assessment and Management
OBJECTIVES After participating in the CME activity, primary care physicians should be able to: 1. Identify barriers to adequate pain management 2. Describe the key elements of pain assessment 3. Describe the principles of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of cancer pain 4. Understand the approach to use of analgesic agents presented in the World Health Organization analgesic ladder ...
متن کاملAssessment and Management of Cancer Pain
It is estimated that from 30% to 50% of patients actively undergoing cancer therapy and from 60% to 90% of patients with advanced cancer have pain (Foley, 1979; Bonica, 1990; Twycross and Fairfield, 1982; World Health Organization, 1986; Levin et al., 1985). Approximately 50% of children in an inpatient pediatric cancer center and about 25% of outpatients experience pain (Miser et al., 1987). T...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cancers
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2072-6694
DOI: 10.3390/cancers11040510