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The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Who 3-step analgesic ladder for cancer pain -- Overview of WHO cancer pain programme -- Cancer pain: a global problem -- UK national cancer patient survey -- Cancer pain is still endemic in the developed world -- Pain characteristics -- Pain in advanced cancer -- 2007 EPIC survey -- What has been achieved? …”
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Issues of cancer survivorship : an interdisciplinary team approach to care /

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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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A guide to oncology symptom management /

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Cancer in the elderly

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Esophageal cancer in the elderly / Guy Pines and Hanoch Kashtan -- Lung cancer in the elderly / David Rossi -- Head and neck cancer in the elderly : an overview / Nikos A. …”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Automated pain intervention for underserved African American and Latina women with breast cancer / Karen O. …”
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Colorectal cancer risk, diagnosis and treatments /

Table of Contents: “…Valle -- Palliative care of colorectal cancer / Carlos Eduardo Paiva ... [et al.] -- Gene variants and gene products encoded in the central part of the MHC are strongly associated with both the risk and the prognosis of colorectal cancer / Judit Kocsis ... …”
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Ovarian cancer new research /

Table of Contents: “…ch. 1. Progress in ovarian cancer research / Dilek Aktas -- ch. 2. Ovulation and ovarian surface epithelial cancer / William J. …”
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Perspectives on cancer care

Table of Contents: “…Cancer : a journey of discovery / Tonks N. Fawcett -- Integrating cancer genetics into healthcare / Roseanne Cetnarskyj and Mary Porteous -- "Being with woman" : the care of the childbearing woman with cancer / Rosemary Mander -- Mucositis and the development of a new instrument for the measurement of oral mucositis in children / Deborah Tomlinson and Lillian Sung -- Facing the challenges of primary malignant brain tumours / Shanne McNamara -- Cancer and the surgeon / Ashley Brown -- Cancer pain / Papiya Russell and Anil Tandon -- Cancer-related fatigue / Antonia Dean -- The clinical research nurse in cancer clinical trials / Patricia B Campbell -- Emotional work of caring in cancer nursing / Anne McQueen -- The management of rectal cancer and the consequences of treatment / Gillian Knowles and Rachel Haigh -- Sustaining hope in people with cancer : developments in palliative and end-of-life care / Margaret Colquhoun and Vicky Hill.…”
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Manual of cancer treatment recovery what the practitioner needs to know and do / by Fleishman, Stewart B.

Table of Contents: “…Emerging needs of survivorship : the Institute of Medicine report, from cancer patient to cancer survivor : lost in transition -- Early intervention to improve treatment outcomes -- Apply survivorship tools early in care -- Comorbidities and cancer survivorship -- Easing communication in multi-provider management -- Effectively managing the transitional points in care -- Tools for survivorship : the LEARN system : living, education, activity, rest, nutrition -- Finding meaning and purpose to sustain oneself during treatment ("living") -- Knowing about cancer and its treatment eases uncertainty ("education") -- Maintaining activity during treatment improves outcomes ("activity" and exercise) -- Resting and sleeping effectively furthers recovery ("rest" and sleep) -- Maintaining optimal nutrition eases time in treatment and recovery ("nutrition") -- Giving forward.…”
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After cancer treatment heal faster, better, stronger / by Silver, J. K. (Julie K.), 1965-

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The patient with pain a palliative care approach /

“…Biomedical & life sciences collection. Cancer pain management : advancing towards optimal symptom management.…”
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Epigenetic biomarkers in cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Epigenetics -- levels of control -- The patient cancer journey-multiple impact points -- Key translational areas for epigenetics -- DNA methylation as cancer biomarker -- DNA methylation analysis methods -- Epigenetic gene silencing in malignant cells -- CpG methylation and clinical outcome -- Causes of aberrant DNA methylation in cancer -- Stem cell targets -- EZH2 as a potential anti-cancer target -- Epigenetic modification as drug targets -- Epigenetic therapies -- DNA methylation versus platinum resistance -- Phase II trial of Decitabine & Carboplatin -- Effects of low doses of DNA-demethylation agents -- Epigenetic therapies challenges.…”
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Pain in osteoarthritis

Table of Contents: “…[et al.] -- Mechanisms that generate and maintain bone cancer pain / Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade, Monica Herrera, and Patrick W. …”
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Pain management in rehabilitation

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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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Clinical pharmacology of pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Drugs used in pain management -- Drug administration -- Choosing the right analgesic -- Cancer pain -- Modified WHO ladder -- Opioid medication -- Inter-individual variation -- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics -- Adverse effects -- Half-lives of opioids -- Drug interactions -- How to treat adverse effects -- Neuropathic pain -- Anti-depressants -- Topical analgesics -- Adjuvant drugs -- Non-cancer pain -- Combinations of drugs -- New targets -- Guidelines.…”
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Understanding chronic pain by Koestler, Angela J.

Table of Contents: “…What is chronic pain? -- What causes chronic pain? -- Seeking relief -- Taking care of yourself -- Low back pain -- Nerve pain -- Rheumatic pain -- Cancer pain -- Other chronic pain conditions -- The search for cures.…”
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The M.D. Anderson surgical oncology handbook /

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Optimal treatment of chronic pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Dealing with the difficult and complex non-malignant pain patient -- It is important to recognize both psychosocial and psychiatric co-morbidities -- Having the patient become part of the solution and having them set realistic goals is important -- Drugs used are similar to those used for cancer pain management but greater awareness of long term effects of opioids such as hyperalgesia and immune suppression, as well as diversion is important.…”
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