Update in cancer pain syndromes.
Cancer pain assessment and management are integral to palliative medicine. This paper reviews recent publications in the period 1999-2004 in the broad categories of epidemiology, pain assessment, nonpharmacologic approaches to cancer pain (radiation therapy, anesthetic blocks, palliative surgery and chemotherapy, complementary and alternative medicine), and in nociceptive pain, neuropathic pain, visceral pain, and bone pain.
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Victor T
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VA New Jersey Health Care System, PDIA Faculty Scholar, East Orange, New Jersey 07018, USA. Victor.chang@med.va.gov
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Jain
Subash
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D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology