Cancer Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hanna, Magdi (Editor), Zylicz, Zbigniew (Ben) (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Oncology.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

Cancer remains a major challenge for medicine and it continues to claim lives and cause great suffering.  Pain is a symptom experienced by most  cancer patients regardless of disease stage, and less than 50% of cancer pain patients achieve effective pain and symptom control though available therapie...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Epidemiology of Pain in Cancer
• 3 Recent Advances in Cancer Treatment
• 4 Pharmacogenetics of Pain in Cancer
• 5 Mechanisms of Cancer Pain
• 6 Pre-clinical Cancer Pain Models
• 7 Pain Assessment, Recognizing Clinical Patterns and Cancer Pain Syndromes
• 8 Opioids, their Receptors and Pharmacology
• 9 Critical Appraisal of the Breakthrough Pain in Cancer
• 10 Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia
• 11 The Non-pharmacological and Local Pharmacological Methods of Pain Control
• 12 New Drugs in Management of Pain in Cancer
• 13 Neuropathic Component of Pain in Cancer
• 14 Non-cancer-related Pain in Daily Practice
• 15 Rehabilitation of Cancer Patients: a Forgotten Need?
• 16 Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer Pain
• 17 Spiritual Care and Pain in Cancer
• 18 Interventional Techniques in Cancer Pain: Critical Appraisal
• 19 Challenges for Pain Management in 21st Century.