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Cancer-related bone pain / editor, Andrew Davies.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford pain management libraryPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2007.]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 118 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191575143
  • 0191575143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC280.6
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Contents:
Pathophysiology / Catherine Urch -- Clinical features / Marie Fallon and Sandra McConnell -- General principles of management / Andrew Davies -- Radiology / David MacVicar and James Crawshaw -- Conventional analgesics for bone pain / John Zeppetella -- Bisphosphonates for bone pain / Rebecca Wong -- Radiotherapy / Nicholas Van As and Robert Huddart -- Anaesthetic/interventional techniques / Paul Farquhar-Smith -- Orthopaedic interventions / Wisam Al-Hakim, Jacob Jagiello, and Timothy Briggs.
Summary: Cancer-related bone pain is experienced by patients with primary bone tumours such as myeloma and osteosarcoma, but is more commonly seen in patients with malignant tumours that have metastasised to bone. Bone pain is one of the most common and severe forms of pain associated with breast, prostate and lung cancer, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms responsible for the pain. Cancer patients identify bone pain as the most disruptive cancer-related event in terms oftheir quality of life and daily functioning, and it is also associated with increased incidence of morbidity, depres.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Pathophysiology / Catherine Urch -- Clinical features / Marie Fallon and Sandra McConnell -- General principles of management / Andrew Davies -- Radiology / David MacVicar and James Crawshaw -- Conventional analgesics for bone pain / John Zeppetella -- Bisphosphonates for bone pain / Rebecca Wong -- Radiotherapy / Nicholas Van As and Robert Huddart -- Anaesthetic/interventional techniques / Paul Farquhar-Smith -- Orthopaedic interventions / Wisam Al-Hakim, Jacob Jagiello, and Timothy Briggs.

Cancer-related bone pain is experienced by patients with primary bone tumours such as myeloma and osteosarcoma, but is more commonly seen in patients with malignant tumours that have metastasised to bone. Bone pain is one of the most common and severe forms of pain associated with breast, prostate and lung cancer, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms responsible for the pain. Cancer patients identify bone pain as the most disruptive cancer-related event in terms oftheir quality of life and daily functioning, and it is also associated with increased incidence of morbidity, depres.

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