Management of Chronic and Acute Pain in Patients with Cancer Diseases

Czech version

Authors: M. Sochor ¹; O. Sláma ²
Authors‘ workplace: Komplexní onkologické centrum, Krajská nemocnice Liberec a. s. 2 Ambulance podpůrné a paliativní péče, Klinika komplexní onkologické péče, Masarykův onkologický ústav, Brno ¹
Published in: Klin Onkol 2015; 28(2): 94-98
Category: Review
doi: https://doi.org/10.14735/amko201594

Overview

Pain is one of the most important and most frequent symptoms of malignancy. Its intensity and prevalence is growing with disease status. Pain should be present in early stage cancer patients also. Pain is, together with other symptoms (anorexia, nausea, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances), factor of patients quality‑ of‑life and proper therapy is responsible for overall patient satisfaction and activity. Right pain management is always multidimensional and pain should be assessed at each contact. In review article we would like to bring some alerts of pain context in complexity of cancer and we would like to stress some forms of acute pain management.

Key words:
chronic pain – acute pain – cancer pain – breakthrough pain – procedural pain – opioids – fentanyl

The authors declare they have no potential conflicts of interest concerning drugs, products, or services used in the study.

The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE “uniform requirements” for biomedical papers.

Submitted:
25. 2. 2015

Accepted:
10. 3. 2015

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