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 ...

September 10, 2009 — Cancer patients in Europe and Israel are not receiving optimal treatment for pain, according to the results of a large 12-country survey. Pain was described as "distressing" by 67 ...

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 . Guidelines for cannabis and prescription opioid use in the management of cancer-associated pain should reflect ...

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Mary Sage lay frozen in place, in such severe pain she couldn’t will herself off the chiropractor’s table. It was 2015, and Sage, then a 56-year-old program operation analyst at the University of ...

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 ...

Treatment-induced acute pain syndromes are associated with most treatment modalities, including chemotherapy, hormone therapy, surgery, and radiotherapy. They range from postsurgical pain syndromes to ...

A Case-Match Study Comparing Unilateral With Synchronous Bilateral Breast Cancer Outcomes From a total of 2,000 oncologists, 354 responded to the original questionnaire and 256 responded to one of two ...

Achieving opioid pharmacoequity or ensuring access to evidence-based pharmacologic therapies regardless of race and ethnicity is a pressing issue in cancer care. 7 This commentary focuses on the role ...

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 ...

The primary symptom of bone cancer is pain. It initially comes and goes and might be worse at night. As cancer progresses, the pain worsens and other symptoms develop, such as redness and swelling.