Clinical Pain Management : Cancer Pain

<p>Now divided into four parts the second edition of Cancer Pain delivers broad coverage of the issues that arise in the management of malignancy-related pain from basic science through end of life care and associated ethical issues to therapies both medical and complementary.<br><br>Part One reviews basis considerations in cancer pain management including epidemiology pharmacology history-taking and patient evaluation and teamworking.<br><br>Part Two brings together the drug therapies for cancer pain their underlying basis and potential side-effects.<br><br>Part Three covers the non-drug therapies including nerve blocks stimulation-induced analgesia radiotherapy complementary therapies and psychological interventions. The control of symptoms other than pain so critical to cancer patients is also considered here.<br><br>Part Four describes special situations. Cancer pain management in children and older patients and in the community setting and pain in the dying patient and the cancer survivor are all covered here.</p>