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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. Advances in cancer treatment
4. Increasing numbers of cancer survivors
5. The scope of the problem
6. Etiology of cancer pain
7. Causes of pain in people with cancer
8. “Silver tsunami”
9. An aging world
10. Increasing survivors of cancer
11. Who is a cancer survivor?
12. Cancer care pathway
13. What makes cancer pain different?
14. Cancer survivors and pain
15. Tumor- and treatment-related pain
16. Reasons for classifying cancer-related pain
17. Chronic pain syndromes associated with chemotherapy
18. Chemotherapeutic agents known to cause neuropathy
19. Diagnostic criteria
20. Chronic pain syndromes associated with hormonal therapies
21. Prevalence of AI arthralgia
22. Chronic pain syndromes associated with radiation
23. Chronic pain syndromes associated with stem cell transplant
24. Painful signs and symptoms of chronic GVHD
25. Chronic pain syndromes associated with surgery
26. Immunotherapy
27. How do we manage cancer pain while reducing harm?
28. Pain in cancer survivors
29. Those at risk of overtreatment
30. Assessment
31. Universal precautions
32. Urine toxicology
33. Universal precautions in pain management
34. When opioids are no longer beneficial: weaning
35. Summary
36. Thank you!

Topics Covered

• Scope of the problem
• Consequences of unrelieved cancer pain
• Prevalence of cancer pain
• Common cancer pain syndromes
• Special populations
• Barriers to cancer pain relief
• Who develops chronic cancer pain

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Series:

• Cancer Pain Management

Categories:

• Cancer
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology
• Oncology

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Publication History

• Published on February 23, 2009
• Archived on July 29, 2021

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Judith Paice has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.