Latin-American guidelines for cancer pain management.
Cancer is a major public health issue. Poor pain management has devastating consequences that seriously affect quality of life, diminish functionality and place a huge emotional burden on patients and their relatives. A group of Latin American opinion leaders were invited to participate in a meeting to discuss areas associated with cancer pain. The expert panel reviewed the latest literature to draft region-specific guidelines for effective pain management. The guidelines make recommendations on tailoring treatment to the specific type of pain and provide local physicians with the state-of-the art findings in the field. Management should be with pharmacological approaches (nonopioid, adjuvant and opioid analgesics, as well as oncologic therapies and interventional procedures) and nonpharmacological approaches.
Department of Pain Medicine & Palliative Care, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición 'Salvador Zubirán', Mexico City, Mexico.
Argelia
A
Lara-Solares
CR Alivio Dolor & CP INCANCER, Asociación Chilena para el Estudio del Dolor (ACHED), Asociación Latino Americana de Cuidados Paliativos (ALCP), Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Marisol
M
Ahumada Olea
Departmentof Oncology, Hospital Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.
Amparito de Los Ángeles
ALÁ
Basantes Pinos
Health Science, Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Mexico, DF, Mexico.
Sara
S
Bistre Cohén
Pain & Palliative Service, Instituto Medico La Floresta, Caracas, Venezuela.
Patricia
P
Bonilla Sierra
Palliative Care & Symptoms Control Service, Institutode Cancerología, Palliative Medicine Unit, Hospital 'Nuestra Señora del Pilar', GuatemalaCity, Guatemala.
Eva Rossina
ER
Duarte Juárez
Department of Oncolgy, Surgical Oncology Service, Hospital Nacional 'Daniel Alcides Carrión', Cancer Pain Therapy and Palliative Care, ADAMO (Atención Ambulatoria del Adulto Mayor y Paciente Oncológico), Dirección Regional de Salud (DIRESA) Callao, Lima, Perú.
Omar A
OA
Símon Escudero
Pain & Palliative Service, Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe. Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Guillermo
JG
Santacruz Escudero
Programa Regional de Cuidados Paliativos, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad No. 25, IMSS, Monterrey NL, México.
José Alberto
JA
Flores Cantisani
D000072716:Cancer Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D059408:Pain Management / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*
Latin America; analgesics; cancer pain; opioids; pain control