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Relationship between background cancer pain, breakthrough pain, and analgesic treatment: a preliminary study for a better interpretation of epidemiological and clinical studies

Sebastiano MercadantePain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Center PalermoItaly;Department of Anesthesia, & Intensive Care, University of Palermo PalermoItalyCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Alessandro ValleHome care program, Fondazione FARO Torino, TurinItaly
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Giampiero PorzioDepartment of Oncology, University of L’Aquila and Home care program, L’Aquila per la vita L’AquilaItaly
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Federica AielliDepartment of Oncology, University of L’Aquila and Home care program, L’Aquila per la vita L’AquilaItaly
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Claudio AdilePain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Center PalermoItaly
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Corrado FicorellaDepartment of Oncology, University of L’Aquila and Home care program, L’Aquila per la vita L’AquilaItaly
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Maurizio RaineriDepartment of Anesthesia, & Intensive Care, University of Palermo PalermoItaly
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Antonino GiarratanoDepartment of Anesthesia, & Intensive Care, University of Palermo PalermoItaly
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Alessandra CasuccioDepartment of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Palermo PalermoItaly
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Pages 667-671 | Accepted 01 Apr 2013, Published online: 24 Apr 2013

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Sebastiano Mercadante. (2015) Fentanyl buccal tablet for the treatment of cancer-related breakthrough pain. Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology 8:1, pages 9-13.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Giovanna Prestia & Alessandra Casuccio. (2013) The use of sublingual fentanyl for breakthrough pain by using doses proportional to opioid basal regimen. Current Medical Research and Opinion 29:11, pages 1527-1532.
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Erik Torbjørn Løhre, Gunnhild Jakobsen, Tora Skeidsvoll Solheim, Pål Klepstad & Morten Thronæs. (2023) Breakthrough and Episodic Cancer Pain from a Palliative Care Perspective. Current Oncology 30:12, pages 10249-10259.
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Rongrong Fan, Xuying Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaofan Bu, Yongyi Chen, Ying Wang & Cuiling Qiu. (2022) Retrospective Observational Study on the Characteristics of Pain and Associated Factors of Breakthrough Pain in Advanced Cancer Patients. Pain Research and Management 2022, pages 1-11.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Augusto Caraceni, Arturo Cuomo, Massimo Mammucari, Paolo Marchetti, Rocco Domenico Mediati, Silvia Natoli & Giuseppe Tonini. (2021) A Longitudinal Study of Breakthrough Cancer Pain: An Extension of IOPS-MS Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine 10:11, pages 2273.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Marco Maltoni, Domenico Russo, Claudio Adile, Patrizia Ferrera, Romina Rossi, Marta Rosati & Alessandra Casuccio. (2021) The Prevalence and Characteristics of Breakthrough Cancer Pain in Patients Receiving Low Doses of Opioids for Background Pain. Cancers 13:5, pages 1058.
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Sebastiano Mercadante & Russell K. Portenoy. (2021) Understanding the Chameleonic Breakthrough Cancer Pain. Drugs 81:4, pages 411-418.
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Soler-López Begoña. (2019) Observational study to analyse the opioid titration process in the treatment of breakthrough pain of cancer patients in clinical practice. Open Journal of Pain Medicine, pages 009-014.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Claudio Adile, Francesco Masedu, Marco Valenti & Federica Aielli. (2019) Breakthrough Cancer Pain in Patients With Abdominal Visceral Cancer Pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 57:5, pages 966-970.
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Sara Campagna, Riccardo Sperlinga, Antonella Milo, Simona Sannuto, Fabio Acquafredda, Andrea Saini, Silvia Gonella, Alfredo Berruti, Giorgio Scagliotti & Marco Tampellini. (2018) The Circadian Rhythm of Breakthrough Pain Episodes in Terminally-ill Cancer Patients. Cancers 11:1, pages 18.
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Keita TagamiAyumi OkizakiTomofumi MiuraYuki Sumazaki WatanabeYoshihisa MatsumotoTatsuya MoritaMaiko FujimoriHiroya Kinoshita. (2018) Breakthrough Cancer Pain Influences General Activities and Pain Management: A Comparison of Patients with and without Breakthrough Cancer Pain. Journal of Palliative Medicine 21:11, pages 1636-1640.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Paolo Marchetti, Arturo Cuomo, Augusto Caraceni, Rocco Mediati, Renato Vellucci, Massimo Mammucari, Silvia Natoli, Marzia Lazzari, Mario Dauri, Claudio Adile, Mario Airoldi, Giuseppe Azzarello, Mauro Bandera, Livio Blasi, Giacomo Cartenì, Bruno Chiurazzi, Benedetta Costanzo, Daniela Degiovanni, Flavio Fusco, Vittorio Guardamagna, Vincenzo Iaffaioli, Simeone Liguori, Loredana Palermo, Sergio Mameli, Francesco Masedu, Rodolfo Mattioli, Teresita Mazzei, Rita Melotti, Valentino Menardo, Danilo Miotti, Stefano Moroso, Gaetano Pascoletti, Stefano De Santis, Remo Orsetti, Alfonso Papa, Sergio Ricci, Elvira Scelzi, Michele Sofia, Giuseppe Tonini, Alessandro Valle & Federica Aielli. (2018) Factors Influencing the Clinical Presentation of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients. Cancers 10:6, pages 175.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Paolo Marchetti, Arturo Cuomo, Augusto Caraceni, Rocco Domenico Mediati, Massimo Mammucari, Silvia Natoli, Marzia Lazzari, Mario Dauri, Mario Airoldi, Giuseppe Azzarello, Mauro Bandera, Livio Blasi, Giacomo Cartenì, Bruno Chiurazzi, Benedetta Veruska Pierpaola Costanzo, Daniela Degiovanni, Flavio Fusco, Vittorio Guardamagna, Vincenzo Iaffaioli, Simeone Liguori, Vito Lorusso, Sergio Mameli, Rodolfo Mattioli, Teresita Mazzei, Rita Maria Melotti, Valentino Menardo, Danilo Miotti, Stefano Moroso, Stefano De Santis, Remo Orsetti, Alfonso Papa, Sergio Ricci, Alessandro Fabrizio Sabato, Elvira Scelzi, Michele Sofia, Giuseppe Tonini, Federica Aielli & Alessandro Valle. (2016) Breakthrough Cancer Pain: Preliminary Data of The Italian Oncologic Pain Multisetting Multicentric Survey (IOPS-MS). Advances in Therapy 34:1, pages 120-135.
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Sebastiano Mercadante & Russell K. Portenoy. (2016) Breakthrough cancer pain: twenty-five years of study. Pain 157:12, pages 2657-2663.
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Sebastiano Mercadante & Arturo Cuomo. (2016) Breakthrough Cancer Pain: Ten Commandments. Value in Health 19:5, pages 531-536.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Federica Aielli, Claudio Adile, Andrea Costanzi & Alessandra Casuccio. (2016) Fentanyl Pectin Nasal Spray Versus Oral Morphine in Doses Proportional to the Basal Opioid Regimen for the Management of Breakthrough Cancer Pain: A Comparative Study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 52:1, pages 27-34.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Paolo Marchetti, Arturo Cuomo, Massimo Mammucari & Augusto Caraceni. (2015) Breakthrough pain and its treatment: critical review and recommendations of IOPS (Italian Oncologic Pain Survey) expert group. Supportive Care in Cancer 24:2, pages 961-968.
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Luis Cabezón-Gutiérrez, Javier Gómez-Pavón, Javier Pérez-Cajaraville, María Aurora Viloria-Jiménez, Cecilio Álamo-González & Pedro Gil-Gregorio. (2015) Actualización del dolor oncológico en el anciano. Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología 50:6, pages 289-297.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Claudio Adile, Arturo Cuomo, Federica Aielli, Andrea Cortegiani, Alessandra Casuccio & Giampiero Porzio. (2015) Fentanyl Buccal Tablet vs. Oral Morphine in Doses Proportional to the Basal Opioid Regimen for the Management of Breakthrough Cancer Pain: A Randomized, Crossover, Comparison Study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 50:5, pages 579-586.
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Sebastiano Mercadante. (2015) Breakthrough pain in cancer patients. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 28:5, pages 559-564.
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R. Sperlinga, S. Campagna, A. Berruti, P. Laciura, I. Ginosa, S. Paoletti, P.L. Giuliano, M. Tucci, R. Rosato, G.V. Scagliotti & A. Saini. (2015) Alberta Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool: A validation multicentre study in cancer patients with breakthrough pain. European Journal of Pain 19:7, pages 881-888.
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Luis Cabezón Gutiérrez & Parham Khosravi Shahi. (2015) Investigación clínica del fentanilo intranasal con pectina. Medicina Paliativa 22, pages 57-61.
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Sebastiano Mercadante, Marzia Lazzari, Carlo Reale, Arturo Cuomo, Flavio Fusco, Paolo Marchetti, Rocco D. Mediati, Bruno Chiurazzi, Libero Ciuffedra, Augusto Caraceni, Vincenzo Iaffaioli, Massimo Luzzani, Giuseppe Micheletto, Alfonso Papa, William Raffaeli, Alessandro Valle, Michele Caruso, Francesco Di Costanzo, Gianpaolo Pinato, Filippo Nardi, Sandro Barni, Silvia Natoli, Massimo Mammucari, Alessandro F. Sabato & Mario Dauri. (2015) Italian Oncological Pain Survey (IOPS). The Clinical Journal of Pain 31:3, pages 214-221.
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Sebastiano Mercadante. (2014) The pain, the oncologist. Supportive Care in Cancer 22:8, pages 2021-2022.
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