Neuromodulation of Cancer Pain
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Neuromodulation of cancer pain.
Managing cancer-related chronic pain is challenging to health care professionals as well as cancer patients and survivors. The management of cancer-related pain has largely consisted of pharmacological treatments, which has caused researchers to focus on neurotransmitter activity as a mediator of patients' perception of pain rather than the electrical activity during neurobiological processes o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative Cancer Therapies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1534-7354,1552-695X
DOI: 10.1177/1534735413477193