title: Advances in cancer pain management.
abstract: Although most patients with cancer pain can attain a favorable balance between analgesia and side effects with a conventional approach to opioid therapy, a substantial minority cannot. For these patients, an important subgroup of whom have neuropathic pain, alternative therapeutic strategies are needed. With a detailed assessment, clinicians should be able to choose among the large and diverse group of options available and implement an approach, or combination of approaches, that have a high probability of improving analgesic outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, First Avenue at 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vielhaber
authors.forename: Russell K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Portenoy
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000779:Anesthetics, Local / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D018579:Patient Selection; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D013256:Steroids; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000779:Anesthetics, Local; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D000927:Anticonvulsants; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D016194:Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; D013256:Steroids