Pain management in cancer patients.
Cancer pain in general responds in a predictable way to analgesic drugs and drug therapy is the mainstay of treatment, successfully controlling pain in 70 to 90% of patients. Some pains do not respond so well but can usually be ameliorated by the judicious use of adjuvant analgesics, non-drug measures and the active involvement of the multi-disciplinary team.
Hanks
G W
GW
United Medical School, Guys Hospital, London, U.K.
D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D009020:Morphine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy; D059408:Pain Management; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy
D009020:Morphine