Improving Pain Experience in Cancer Patients

ABSTRACT

The European Society for Medical Oncology guidance on cancer pain management is described. Causes of pain form cancer management modalities, treatment of cancer-related pain, the role of pain management specialists in these patients’ care, and the place of opioid pharmacotherapy and risks of opioid adverse events are discussed.

This report is adapted from paineurope 2013; Issue 3, ©Haymarket Medical Publications Ltd., and is presented with permission. paineurope is provided as a service to pain management by Mundipharma International, Ltd., and is distributed free of charge to health care professionals in Europe. Archival issues can be accessed via the Web site: http://www.paineurope.com, at which European health professionals can register online to receive copies of the quarterly publication.

KEYWORDS :

• cancer
• causes
• European Society for Medical Oncology
• management
• opioids
• pain