Cancer Pain Archives - Clinical Pain Advisor

As post-transplant medications are used to reduce the body’s immune reaction to a foreign organ, the

Prolonged Postoperative Opioid Use Noted in Early-Stage Breast Cancer

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June 19, 2020

Patients with early-stage breast cancer who undergo mastectomy with or without reconstruction are at risk of prolonged opioid use.

Cancer Pain

Genetic Polymorphisms: Understanding Their Relationship With Cancer Pain

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Vicki Moore, PhD

June 19, 2020

A discussion on the genetic influence of single nucleotide polymorphisms on cancer pain and their potential to assist pain management in patients with cancer.

Cancer Pain

Drug Monitoring Programs May Affect Cancer Pain Management

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Jonathan Goodman, MPhil

June 2, 2020

Prescription drug monitoring programs that aim to prevent opioid misuse may be affecting patients with cancer who need pain management.

A caregiver reviews a patient's daily therapy.

Cancer Pain

Social Workers Are Underutilized in Oncologic Pain Management

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Lydia Mills, MSW, LCSW, LICSW

May 26, 2020

Expertise in the use of nonpharmacologic pain management techniques and therapies allow masters-prepared social workers to be an integral member of a multidisciplinary cancer care team.

Still routinely prescribed to manage chronic pain, opioids are oftentimes overused, misused, or abused by patients. These behaviors are associated with a number of adverse effects, the most serious of which, respiratory depression, can result in death. Affectively dysregulated patients may associate negative emotions with recurrent opioid use through operant learning. [9] It is therefore imperative to prevent, identify, and manage opioid misuse in those patients, and seek to adopt of multi-dimensional approach to the treatment of chronic pain. Numerous initiatives have been initiated, aiming to guide healthcare practitioners in face of the opioid epidemic.

Opioid Addiction

Opioid-Related Deaths Less Likely Among Cancer Patients

May 21, 2020

Opioid-related deaths in the cancer population are much rarer than in the general population.

Research into opioid alternatives for cancer-related pain has stalled, however substance use disorders remain problematic.

Cancer Pain

Improving Cancer Pain Management Amid the Opioid Crisis

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Liz Seegert

March 12, 2020

Research into opioid alternatives for cancer-related pain has stalled, however substance use disorders remain problematic.

Chronic Pain

Strontium89 Now Available for Relief of Metastatic Bone Pain

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Diana Ernst, RPh

February 14, 2020

Strontium89 (Strontium Chloride Sr-89 injection), a radiopharmaceutical indicated for the relief of bone pain in patients with painful skeletal metastases, has been made available by Q BioMed.