title: Undertreatment of caner pain.
abstract: Pain is a burdensome symptom that can commonly exist chronically along the cancer trajectory. Uncontrolled pain will impact on cancer patients' quality of life, even further negatively affect cancer survivors' employment. Based on systemic reviews of studies for past 10 years, the paper reported that although there is enormous advancement on the knowledge of cancer pain and pain management, studies still documented undertreatment of cancer pain globally. Additionally, pain distress a significant portion of cancer survivors. The pain in cancer survivors distinct from the pain related with cancer, instead emphasize on pain related with cancer treatment, such as neuropathic pain, muscular syndrome. Evidence-based pain management with common pain problems in cancer survivors is lacking. Further studies are needed to understand the pain in cancer survivors and to develop effective strategies in helping cancer survivors to manage their pain.
authors.affiliation: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: shiuyu@ntunhs.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Cheng-Hsu
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Clinic of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shiu-Yu C
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000072716:Cancer Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000628:therapy; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D017741:Survivors
keywords: cancer pain; cancer survivor; pain management; prevalence