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Pain management: pharmacological approaches

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Palliative Care and Rehabilitation of Cancer Patients

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 100))

Abstract

More than three quarters of patients with advanced cancer experience chronic pain that is severe enough to warrant therapy with opioid drugs [1,2]. The most prevalent pain syndromes are disease related in adults and treatment related in children [3,4]. In adults with metastatic solid tumors, disease-related pains are usually persistent and often progressive, a pattern that reflects the limited availability of effective primary therapies for many of these tumors. In the pediatric population, the availability of effective antineoplastic therapies for the common tumors yields a pattern of disease-related pain that is typically characterized by transitory episodes [5].

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Portenoy, R.K., Frager, G. (1999). Pain management: pharmacological approaches. In: von Gunten, C.F. (eds) Palliative Care and Rehabilitation of Cancer Patients. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 100. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5003-7_1

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