Main description:

Now divided into four parts, the second edition of Cancer Pain delivers broad coverage of the issues that arise in the management of malignancy-related pain, from basic science, through end of life care and associated ethical issues, to therapies, both medical and complementary.

Part One reviews basis considerations in cancer pain management, including epidemiology, pharmacology, history-taking and patient evaluation and teamworking.

Part Two brings together the drug therapies for cancer pain, their underlying basis, and potential side-effects.

Part Three covers the non-drug therapies, including nerve blocks, stimulation-induced analgesia, radiotherapy, complementary therapies and psychological interventions. The control of symptoms other than pain, so critical to cancer patients, is also considered here.

Part Four describes special situations. Cancer pain management in children and older patients, and in the community setting, and pain in the dying patient and the cancer survivor are all covered here.

Contents:

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 NAA+/-ez 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 K Portenoy
23 Psychological interventions in cancer pain management - T Manoj Kumar, C Venkateswaran, and P Thekkumpurath
24 Control of symptoms other than pain - Emma Hall, Nigel Sykes and Victor Pace
PART 4 CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF PAIN IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS
25 Pediatric cancer pain - John J Collins, Michael M Stevens and Charles B Berde
26 Cancer pain in older people - Margot Gosney
27 Cancer pain management in the context of substance abuse - Sharon M Weinstein
28 Pain in the dying person - Kate Skinner and Steven Z Pantilat
29 Pain in cancer survivors - W Paul Farquhar-Smith
30 Cancer pain management in the community setting - Margaret Gibbs, Vicky Robinson, Nigel Sykes and Christine Miaskowski