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Cancer pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Trends in cancer pain -- Etiology of cancer pain -- Cancer survivors -- Problems faced by cancer survivors who have persistent pain -- Tumor and treatment related pain -- Chronic pain syndromes associated with cancer treatment -- Guidelines for treating cancer survivors who experience persistent pain -- Challenges in managing pain associated with malignancies.…”
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Pain control support for people with cancer

Table of Contents: “…What you should know about treating cancer pain -- Types and causes of cancer pain -- Talking about your pain -- Your pain control plan -- Medicines to treat cancer pain -- Questions to ask your health care team about your pain medicine -- Medicine tolerance and addiction -- Other ways to control pain -- Your feelings and pain -- Financial issues.…”
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Opioids in cancer pain

Subjects: “…Cancer pain Treatment.…”
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Cancer pain control an evidence-based approach /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Importance of cancer pain control -- Assessment and sources of cancer pain -- Selecting agents according to pain mechanism -- The WHO ladder -- Nonopioids and adjuvants -- Opioids -- Side effects -- Neuraxial drug delivery -- Nondrug modalities -- What does the published evidence show?.…”
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Symptom control using technology pragmatically /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Use of PCA for acute or episodic pain -- Blocks in cancer pain -- Targeted analgesia -- Use of continuous infusions -- Neuroablative blocks -- Spinal pumps: indications and benefits -- Options for spinal pump medications -- New option: Ziconotide -- Managing the distressed patient best with a multidisciplinary team.…”
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Cancer-related bone pain

Subjects: “…Bones Cancer Treatment.…”
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Principles and practice of palliative care and supportive oncology /

Table of Contents: “…Difficult pain syndromes: neuropathic pain, bone pain, and visceral pain -- Opioid pharmacotherapy -- Nonpharmacologic management of pain -- Interventional approaches to pain -- Pathology of bone metastases-implications for treatment -- Pathophysiology of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy -- Cancer-related fatigue -- Fever and sweats -- Hot flashes -- Anorexia/weight loss -- Dysphagia/speech rehabilitation in palliative care -- Chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting and treatment-related nausea and vomiting -- Assessment of management of chronic nausea and vomiting -- Diarrhea, malabsorption, and constipation -- Bowel obstruction -- Diagnosis and management of effusions -- Hiccups and other gastrointestinal symptoms -- Biology of treatment-induced mucositis -- Oral manifestations and complications of cancer therapy -- Approach to liver metastases in palliative oncology -- Palliative endoscope procedures -- Palliative interventional radiologic procedures -- Pruritus -- Treatment of tumor-related skin disorders -- Dermatologic adverse events during treatment -- Management of pressure ulcers and fungating wounds -- Lymphedema -- Principles of fistula and stoma management -- Dyspnea in the cancer patient -- Hemoptysis, airway obstruction, bronchospasm, cough, and pulmonary complications/symptoms of cancer and its treatment -- Prevention, assessment, and management of treatment-induced cardiac disease in cancer patients -- Management of hypercoagulable states and coagulopathy -- Urologic issues in palliative care -- Impact of hepatic and renal dysfunction on pharmacology of palliative care drugs -- Hypercalcemia -- Metabolic disorders in the cancer patient -- Infectious complications/management --…”
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Cancer pain management scenarios /

Subjects: “…Cancer pain Treatment Examinations, questions, etc.…”
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Principles and practice of supportive oncology /

Subjects: “…Cancer pain Treatment.…”

Bonica's management of pain /

Table of Contents: “…Intellectual milestones in our understanding and treatment of pain -- Pain terms and taxonomies of pain -- Peripheral pain mechanisms and nociceptor sensitization -- Substrates of spinal cord nociceptive processing -- Modulation of spinal nociceptive processing -- Supraspinal mechanisms of pain and nociception -- Psychological aspects of pain -- Indivdual differences in pain: the roles of gender, ethnicity, and genetics -- Functional neuroanatomy of the nociceptive system -- Clinical trials -- Sociocultural dimensions of pain management -- Ethical issues in pain management -- Ethical issues in the care of dying patients -- Laws and policies affecting pain management -- Litigation involving pain management -- Opioid policy, availability, and access in developing and nonindustrialized countries -- Medical evaluation of the chronic pain patient -- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of acute and chronic pain syndromes -- Diagnostic imaging of pain -- Measurement of pain -- Psychological and psychosocial evaluation -- Disability evaluation in painful conditions -- Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with chronic pain -- Painful neuropathies -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Phantom pain -- Herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia -- Central pain states -- The psychophysiology of pain -- Pain and learning -- Psychiatric illness, depression, anxiety, and somatoform pain syndromes -- The psychology of addiction -- The doctor-patient relationship in pain management: dealing with difficult clinician-patient interactions -- Joint pain -- Myofascial pain syndrome -- Fibromyalgia -- Pain of dermatologic disorders -- Pain due to vascular causes -- Pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome -- Pain following spinal cord injury -- Epidemiology, prevalence, and cancer pain syndromes -- Mechanisms, assessment, and diagnosis of pain due to cancer -- Cancer pain: principles of management and pharmacotherapy -- Interventional pain therapies -- Pain caused by cancer of the head and neck and oral mucositis --…”
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Issues of cancer survivorship : an interdisciplinary team approach to care /

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A guide to oncology symptom management /

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Enduring Cancer : Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi / by Banerjee, Dwaipayan, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Concealing cancer -- Cancer conjugality -- Researching pain, practicing empathy -- Cancer memoirs -- Cancer films -- Endurance.…”
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The Massachusetts General Hospital handbook of pain management /

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HSV vectors approaches to the treatment of chronic pain /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: HSV gene therapy for pain -- Criteria for vector engineering and gene delivery -- HSV gene expression and HSV vectors -- Treating pain with opioid peptides -- Spinal nerve ligation model of neuropathic pain -- Transduction of lumbar DRG with HSV vector -- Osteolytic sarcoma studies -- Clinical trial in terminal cancer patients -- Effect of glycine on nociceptive behavior -- Selective vector infection and expression -- Targeting transgene expression with promoters -- Gene expression constructs -- Promoter-regulated expression in embryonic DRG -- Comparing LAP, CMV & CGRP gene expression.…”
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Quality of care for oncologic conditions and HIV a review of the literature and quality indicators /

Table of Contents: “…Skin cancer screening -- 11. Cancer pain and palliation -- Appendix A: Panel rating sheets by condition -- Appendix B: Crosswalk table of original and final indicators.…”
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