Cancer Pain

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Hanna, Magdi (Editor ), Zylicz, Zbigniew (Ben) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Pain medicine.
Oncology.
Internal medicine.
Pain Medicine.
Internal Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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