جدول المحتويات:
- Taxonomy of cancer pain
- Current trends in cancer pain management
- Initial approach to the patient with cancer pain
- Evaluation and control of cancer pain in the pediatric patient
- Pain due to tumors of the skull base
- Pain due to epidural metastases and spinal cord compression
- Pain due to bone metastases: new research issues and their clinical implications
- Visceral pain
- Pain following mastectomy, thoracotomy, and radical neck dissection
- Pain following extremity amputation
- Peripheral neuropathy due to chemotherapy and radiation therapy
- Postherpetic neuralgia in the cancer patient
- Neuroradiologic evaluation of the patient with cancer pain
- Behavioral assessment of the patient with cancer pain
- Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric complications
- Opioid analgesics and routes of administration
- Immunologic effects of acute and chronic opiate administration
- Management of opioid-related side effects
- Cancer pain management in the opioid-tolerant patient
- Cancer pain management in the patient with a history of opiate abuse
- Nonopioid analgesics
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Anticonvulsants
- Topical and oral anesthetics
- Bisphosphonates
- Cancer pain management in the home setting
- Psychological interventions
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Acupuncture therapy
- Neurolytic celiac plexus block
- Intraspinal therapy
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
- Neurosurgical procedures for cancer pain management
- Chemotherapy for cancer pain management
- Radiation therapy for cancer pain management
- Management of visceral pain due to cancer-related intestinal obstruction
- Hypophysectomy
- Neurolytic techniques for cancer pain management
- Management of cancer pain in neonates, children, and adolescents
- Management of procedure-related pain in children
- Forgotten techniques in cancer pain management
- General principles of palliative care
- The true terminal phase
- Management of symptomatic bone metastases
- Management of dermatologic problems.