Mary Morreale
Mary Morreale
Given the biopsychosocial model of pain, it is not surprising that a strong degree of association exists between cancer pain and psychological distress. ...
Carolina Gutierrez,Megan B Nelson
Carolina Gutierrez
Cancer patients have unique symptoms from tumor burden and cancer treatments, which affect functional status and quality of life. Reports have shown approximately 65% of cancer patients have at least one functional/rehabilitation need, yet ...
Sharona Ben-Haim,Zaman Mirzadeh,William S Rosenberg
Sharona Ben-Haim
Cancer-related pain is a uniquely challenging entity for treating practitioners for a variety of reasons, including its often severe and medically refractory nature, the emotional and social circumstances surrounding the disease process, an...
Denis Dupoiron
Denis Dupoiron
The number of new cancer cases has been increasing globally over the last several decades. © 2021. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Rene Przkora,Pavel Balduyeu,Juan Mora et al.
Rene Przkora et al.
Peripheral nerve entrapments can occur anywhere in the head and body and can cause significant pain. Cancer pain can be caused by these entrapments, triggered by a variety of etiologies, including tumor invasion, surgical trauma, chemothera...
Manisha Trivedi,Jaisha Mathew
Manisha Trivedi
Interventional pain management is a subspecialty of medicine devoted to the use of invasive techniques such as joint injections, nerve blocks/or neurolysis, neuromodulation, and epidural and selective nerve blocks to provide diagnosis and t...
Jonathan Kessler
Jonathan Kessler
Painful bone metastases are a frequently encountered problem in oncology practice. The skeletal system is the third most common site of metastatic disease and up to 85% of patients with breast, prostate, and lung cancer may develop bone met...
Arya Amini,Ashwin Shinde,Jeffrey Wong
Arya Amini
Bone metastases are the most common cause of cancer-related pain. Radiation therapy (RT) is a very common and effective treatment to relieve pain. Conventionally fractionated RT typically consists of the following regimens: 8 Gy in a single...
Marga Glasser,Jeffrey Chen,Mohammed Alzarah et al.
Marga Glasser et al.
Pain is a common and debilitating symptom of cancer. Cancer-related pain can occur at any point along the continuum from diagnosis to treatment to survivorship1. A systematic review published in 2016 estimated the prevalence of cancer pain ...
Christy Anthony,Armen Haroutunian,Eric Hsu et al.
Christy Anthony et al.
Although opioids are potent central acting broad-spectrum analgesics, their effectiveness is diminished by various factors pertaining to their metabolism, drug interactions, genetic issues, adverse/side effects, and potential for abuse. All...