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Interventional Therapies for Pain in Cancer Patients: a Narrative Review
- Source :
- Current pain and headache reportsPapers of particular interest, published recently, have been highlighted as: • Of importance. 25(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Pain is a prevalent symptom in the lives of patients with cancer. In light of the ongoing opioid epidemic and increasing awareness of the potential for opioid abuse and addiction, clinicians are progressively turning to interventional therapies. This article reviews the interventional techniques available to mitigate the debilitating effects that untreated or poorly treated pain have in this population. A range of interventional therapies and technical approaches are available for the treatment of cancer-related pain. Many of the techniques described may offer effective analgesia with less systemic toxicity and dependency than first- and second-line oral and parenteral agents. Neuromodulatory techniques including dorsal root ganglion stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation are increasingly finding roles in the management of oncologic pain. The goal of this pragmatic narrative review is to discuss interventional approaches to cancer-related pain and the potential of such therapies to improve the quality of life of cancer patients.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Pain medicine
Population
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life
030202 anesthesiology
Medicine
Humans
Pain Management
Intensive care medicine
education
media_common
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Addiction
Visceral pain
General Medicine
Cancer Pain
Neuromodulation (medicine)
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Neurology (clinical)
Interventional pain management
medicine.symptom
business
Cancer pain
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15343081
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current pain and headache reportsPapers of particular interest, published recently, have been highlighted as: • Of importance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c6580b2ba4b1a13bf5a83c30229b7f06