TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 45. Medical Management of Cancer Pain
A1  - Hough, Stuart W.
A1  - Portenoy, Russell K.
A2  - Warfield, Carol A.
A2  - Bajwa, Zahid H.
PY  - 2004
T2  - Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
AB  - Cancer  pain  is  usually  caused  directly  by  neoplastic  injury  to  pain-sensitive  structures.  For  this  reason,  primary  antineoplastic  therapy,  including  radiation,  chemotherapy,  and  palliative  surgery,  should  be  considered  part  of  an  analgesic  strategy  in  some  cases.  When  therapy  directed  at  the  tumor  is  inappropriate,  is  not  feasible,  or  is  ineffective,  symptomatic  analgesic  therapies  become  the  overriding  concern.  Opioid-based  pharmacotherapy  is  the  mainstay  approach,  but  adjunctive  anesthetic,  surgical,  psychiatric,  and  physical  modalities  may  be  essential  in  some  cases  (See  Chapter  46,  Anesthetic  Interventions  in  Cancer  Pain).  Pharmacologic  approaches  may  be  systemic  or  regional  (anesthetic).  This  chapter  addresses  only  systemic  pharmacologic  analgesics.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3417166
ER  -