The personal pain goal is inadequate for assessing outcomes of cancer pain management; goals should include function, medication effects, and safety. Cancer patients need a more comprehensive means of ...

“Cancer pain can encompass more than just the illness itself. You can have side effects from medicine, nerve pain, acute pain from your treatment and breakthrough pain as well. Here at Advanced Pain ...

Opioids are the mainstay of cancer pain treatment, and many of the guideline changes deal with how these agents should be selected and used in cancer patients. New to the adult cancer pain guidelines ...

Opioids remain a staple in pain management for cancer, but there is little guidance around how to treat patients who have a history of opioid misuse. Recently, a group of palliative and addiction ...

The review demonstrated a rise in publications related to AI/machine learning cancer pain research, with 1 article published between 2006 and 2009 and 26 published between 2020 and 2023. Artificial ...

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Based on patient self-reports, cancer pain was considered more likely to limit normal life than noncancer pain. A study that investigated the prevalence of pain among patients with cancer referred to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines for cannabis and prescription opioid use in the management of cancer-associated pain should reflect ...

In a recent clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the United States of America (USA) assessed and compared the effectiveness of acupuncture and massage therapy for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — A review of more than 1,700 prior authorization requests related to pain medication for people with ...

This review examines evidence for psychological factors that affect pain across the cancer continuum from diagnosis through treatment and long-term survivorship or end of life. Evidence is convincing ...