Cancer pain prevalence and its management.
Pain is a public health problem affecting more than half of cancer patients. Despite the success of the protocols currently used, pain cannot still be reduced satisfactorily in the large majority of patients. In order to improve pain management, all healthcare professionals involved with pain should have sufficient knowledge on pain assessment and treatment, and should inform patients to prevent patient-related barriers. In this compilation, the prevalence values and the treatment methods of cancer pain, and the barriers to pain management have been assessed.
Department of Medical Oncology, Regional Training and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey E-mail : timurkoca3@gmail.com.
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Arslan
Timur
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Koca
Emre
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Akar
Deniz
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Tural
Mustafa
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Ozdogan
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014944:World Health Organization
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D000928:Antidepressive Agents