This book is intended to provide physicians treating cancer patients with the necessary background and data to manage cancer pain. Early detection and improved treatment of cancer mean that today the cure rate for some forms of cancer exceeds ninety per cent. However, cancer-related pain continues to occur in one-third of patients under active therapy and in two-thirds of patients with far advanced disease, and remains the most feared and distressing component of the disease to patients, relatives and the health professionals involved in their treatment. In many cases, the most effective and expeditious way to alleviate pain is by a neurosurgical procedure or anaesthetic block, and this book gives appropriate coverage to these methods as well as to pharmacological therapy and analgesia, the more established strategies
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