This book is intended to provide physicians treating cancer patients with the necessary background and data to manage cancer pain. Early detection and improved treatment of cancer mean that the cure rate for some forms of cancer exceeds 90 per cent. However, cancer-related pain continues to occur in one-third of patients under active therapy and in two-thirds of patients with far advanced disease, and remains the most feared and distressing component of the disease to patients, relatives and the health professionals involved in their treatment. In many cases, the most effective and expeditious way to alleviate pain is by a neurosurgical procedure or anaesthetic block, and this book gives appropriate coverage to these methods as well as to pharmacological therapy and analgesia, the more established strategies.
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978-0-87993-552-8 (9780879935528)
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Section I: Introduction: Scope of the Cancer Pain Problem; Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology of Nociception; Section II: Clinical Aspects: Cancer Pain Syndromes and Classification; Assessment of the Patient with Cancer Pain; Section III: Multimodality Management of Cancer-Related Pain: Pharmacotherapy of Cancer Pain; The Role of Radiotherapy in the Management of Cancer-Related Pain; The Use of Chemotherapy in Cancer Pain Treatment; Psychiatric and Psychological Approaches to Cancer Pain; The Role of Psychiatry; Relieving Suffering in Children with Malignant Disease; Home Care for Patients with Cancer-Related Pain; Section IV: Surgical Management of Patients with Cancer Pain Considerations in the Selection of Patients for Surgical Treatment of Pain Caused by Malignancy; Ablative Central Nervous System Lesions for Control of Cancer Pain; Electrical Stimulation of the Brain for Treatment of Intractable Cancer Pain; The Role of Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Management of Patients with Pain from Malignancy; Hypophysectomy in the Treatment of Cancer Pain; Cingulotomy for the Treatment of Cancer-Related Pain; Commissural Myelotomy for Relief of Intractable Pain; Anterolateral Cordotomy; Neurectomy, Rhizotomy, Ganglionectomy for Cancer-Related Pain; Rhizotomies and Dorsal Root Entry Zone Lesions in the Management of Cancer-Related Pain; Section V: Anaesthetic Approaches for Intractable Cancer Pain: Intraventricular Morphine Therapy; Anaesthetic Blocks and Spinal Opioid Infusion; Section VI: Surgical Considerations in a Special Population of Patients with Cancer-Related Pain: Management of Head and Neck Cancer Pain; Pain Associated with Superior Sulcus Tumour and its Management; Pain Associated with Bowel Obstruction; Pain Associated with Urinary Tract Cancer and its Management; Spinal Metastatic Disease, Evaluation and Treatment; Neurosurgical Management of Perineal Pain in Cancer; The Surgical Management of Pain Associated with Recurrent Rectal Cancer; The Mechanism and Treatment of Bone Pain
