Clinical Pain Management: Cancer Pain

PART 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1 Pathophysiology of somatic, visceral and neuropathic cancer pain - Catherine E Urch and Rie Suzuki 2 Epidemiology of cancer pain - Irene J Higginson, Julie Hearn and Fliss Murtagh 3 Cancer pain syndromes - Robert Twycross and Michael Bennett 4 History and clinical examination of the cancer pain patient: assessment and measurement - Badi El Osta and Eduardo Bruera 5 Psychological evaluation of patient and family - Barbara Monroe 6 The role of the nonprofessional caregiver in cancer pain management - Christine Miaskowski 7 Teamworking in cancer pain management - Vicky Robinson and Rob George 8 Barriers to cancer pain relief: an international perspective on drug availability and service delivery - Fiona Graham and David Clark 9 Ethical issues in cancer pain management - Fiona Randall PART 2 DRUG THERAPIES FOR CANCER PAIN 10 Clinical pharmacology: principles of analgesic drug management - Stephan A. Schug and Kirsten Auret 11 Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics: non-opioids - Victor Pace 12 Clinical pharmacology of opioids: basic pharmacology - Sangeeta R Mehendale and Chun-Su Yuan 13 Clinical pharmacology of opioids: opioid switching and genetic basis for variability in opioid sensitivity - Columba Quigley, Joy Ross and Julia Riley 14 Clinical pharmacology of opioids: adverse effects of opioids - Juan Manuel Nunez Olarte 15 Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics: drugs for neuropathic pain in cancer - Carina Saxby and Michael Bennett 16 Control of procedure-related pain - Iain Lawrie and Colin Campbell PART 3 NON-DRUG THERAPIES FOR CANCER PAIN 17 Nerve blocks: chemical and physical neurolytic agents - John E Williams 18 Stimulation-induced analgesia - Mark I Johnson, Stephen Oxberry and Karen Robb 19 Radiotherapy - Peter J Hoskin 20 Management of bone pain - Peter J Hoskin 21 Complementary therapies - Jacqueline Filshie and Adrian White 22 Management of breakthrough pain - Giovambattista Zeppetella and Russell

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"The book is well set out and is a pleasure to browse... This book belongs on the library shelf in both medical oncology and palliative care departments, where it will be a useful resource for both experienced physicians and trainees."--Roger Woodruff in Hachette Livre Australia