Pharmacotherapy of cancer pain in dogs and cats suffering from cancer

Pain is an important symptom that accompanies cancer disease. Cancer pain is a chronic pain of medium to strong intensity, and it usually seriously impairs the quality of life of the cancer patients. In dogs and cats, the management of cancer pain includes drugs from different pharmacological groups. They are non-opioid and opioid analgesics, NMDA antagonists, anticonvulsant drugs, tricyclic antidepressants and steroids. Some of them are registered for use in veterinary medicine, and some are drugs for use in human medicine. .
U patogenezi kancera značajno mesto zauzima bol, kao prateći simptom ovog teškog patološkog stanja. Bol koji prati kancer je hroničnog toka i srednje jakog do jakog intenziteta, tako da ozbiljno narušava kvalitet života pacijenata obolelih od ove bolesti. Terapija kancerskog bola kod pasa i mačaka sprovodi se primenom lekova iz različitih faramakoloških grupa. To su pre svega neopioidni i opioidni analgetici, antagonisti NMDA receptora, antikonvulzivni lekovi, triciklični antidepresivi i steroidni antiinflamatorni lekovi. Neki lekovi su registrovani za upotrebu u veterinarskoj medicini, a neki se preuzimaju iz palete lekova namenjenih za primenu u humanoj medicini.