[Bone metastases pain in the elderly].
Every year in Europe and in USA, more than 60% of new cases of cancer are diagnosed at the patient's of more than 65 years with a mortality of more than 70%. Pain, is a major symptom which often accompanies cancer. It is always painful and intolerable, notably when pain is linked to bone metastases to elderly patients often poly pathological. In 1/3 of cases pain is present at the time of diagnosis of cancer and in 2/3 of cases at the advanced diseases. The bone metastases occupy the third place after the pulmonary and liver metastases. They are in order of frequency linked in breast cancer, the kidney and the prostate cancer. Bone metastases are at the origin of the loss of the elderly autonomy, with for consequence an impairment of quality of life. Validated tools are at now available to assess this pain. The different treatments offered in bone metastases pain are: the chemotherapy, the surgery, radiotherapy, bisphosphonates and analgesic treatment.
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Service d'oncologie médicale, Hôpital Avicenne, 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny cedex, France.
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Baba-Hamed
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Des Guetz
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D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000368:Aged; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D010147:Pain Measurement
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid