Cancer Pain Management

Historical perspectives of cancer pain management; epidemiology of cancer in adults; epidemiology of cancer in children; nerve block therapy for cancer pain; overview of medical management of cancer pain: second order of business; pyschological intervention in cancer pain management; pyschiatric management of cancer pain; comprehensive medical management of cancer pain; opoid analgesia; cancer pain and suicide; neurolytic blocks for cancer pain; principles of neurolytic blockage; management of perineal and pelvic pain syndromes; the integration of pain management in comprehensive cancer; physiology and pharmacology of neuraxial narcotic agents; patient selection and implantation techniques for drug administration systems; economic outcome and practice efficacy of implanted drug administration systems; cost comparison for fully implanted versus external drug administration systems; non-opiate neuraxially active agents for cancer pain; the hospice movement home care and cancer pain; governmental regulatory agencies and cancer pain; cancer pain and litigation; radiotherapeutic approaches for cancer pain management; neurosurgical approaches for cancer pain management; cancer pain - its nuances, its problems and its management - perspectives of a physician and patient; cancer-related syndromes and their pain management; transphenoidal hypophysectomy for pain management; recent and future advance in cancer pain management