• Scope of the Problem
• 34 min
  1. Cancer pain

  • Prof. Judith Paice
• Current Therapies
• 58 min
  2. The rational use of opioid analgesics for cancer pain - with a critique of the WHO 3-step ladder

  • Prof. Sam Ahmedzai
• 17 min
  3. Spinal analgesia for cancer pain

  • Prof. Jon Raphael
• 41 min
  4. Celiac plexus block

  • Prof. David Brown
• Future Directions
• 45 min
  5. Pain and symptom control in palliative care: new ways to think about old drugs

  • Prof. Larry Driver
• 36 min
  6. Symptom control: using technology pragmatically

  • Dr. Steven Richeimer
• From Palliative Care to Chronic Pain
• 42 min
  7. Insight and responsibility: ethics in pain medicine and palliative care

  • Prof. Rollin Gallagher
• 23 min
  8. The patient with pain: a palliative care approach

  • Dr. Janet Abrahm
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 34 min
  9. Cancer pain and related symptoms: an overview

  • Prof. Judith Paice
• 74 min
  10. Cancer pain control: an evidence-based approach

  • Prof. Daniel Carr
  • Dr. Baraa Tayeb
• 47 min
  11. Optimal treatment of chronic pain

  • Prof. Gordon Irving
• 33 min
  12. Chronic cancer pain: the price of success?

  • Prof. Allen Burton

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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. The WHO ladder
4. Treatment of cancer pain
5. Cancer pain - statistics
6. Epidemiology of cancer pain
7. Existence of pain due to cancer
8. Cancer pain - etiology
9. Nociceptive pain: somatic and visceral
10. Neuropathic cancer pain
11. Chronic pain after cancer surgery
12. Ways to classify "cancer pain"
13. Why not apply the WHO ladder to all patients?
14. The total challenge of cancer pain
15. Cancer pain vs. chronic pain
16. Current challenges in cancer pain management
17. Pyramid of modern approaches to chronic pain
18. Chronic pain as a new frontier
19. Chronic pain treatment strategy
20. How do we really do it?
21. Chronic pain behaviors
22. Psychologically based therapies
23. The role of interventional procedures
24. Keep the total picture of the patient
25. MDACC treatment algorithm
26. Epidural and IT analgesia treatment (1)
27. Epidural and IT analgesia treatment (2)
28. IT analgesia for treating refractory cancer pain
29. Vertebral compression fractures
30. The MD Anderson experience
31. Pathology
32. Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty - reviews
33. VCF in myeloma patients
34. Percutaneous vertebroplasty - a case series
35. Refuting proposed contraindications
36. S/p multi level kyphoplasty
37. IT treatment in metastatic cancer
38. Principles of pain management - unified theory?
39. Cancer pain treatment overview
40. Research and education
41. Cancer pain management - literature
42. Chronic cancer pain - summary

Topics Covered

• Treatment of cancer pain
• Cancer pain statistics
• Epidemiology of cancer pain
• Existence of pain due to cancer
• Cancer pain etiology
• Nociceptive pain: somatic and visceral
• Neuropathic cancer pain
• Chronic pain after cancer surgery
• Ways to classify cancer pain
• Why not just apply the WHO ladder principle to all cancer patients?
• Cancer pain vs. chronic pain
• Current challenges in cancer pain management
• Pyramid of modern approaches to chronic pain
• Chronic cancer pain treatment strategy
• MDACC treatment algorithm
• Psychological treatments are important
• The role of interventional procedures
• Vertebroplasty
• Kyphoplasty
• Principles of pain management: toward a unified theory?

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Series:

• Cancer Pain Management

Categories:

• Cancer
• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology
• Oncology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on February 23, 2009
• Archived on February 25, 2021

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Allen Burton, Consultant: Medtronic, Stryker. Speaker’s Bureau: Cadence, Cephalon, Neurogesx, Pricara, Pfizer.