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Product Description: Drs. Eduardo D. Bruera and Russell K. Portenoy have completely revised and updated the widely respected Cancer Pain: Assessment and Management for the second edition of this unanimously praised book. This is a comprehensive, clinically oriented review of all aspects of the complex and multidimensional problem of cancer pain...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive text surveys the unique characteristics of cancer pain, including its pathophysiology, clinical assessment, diagnosis, pharmacological management and nonpharmacological treatment. The internationally recognized contributors address the full range of disciplines involved in cancer pain management, including pharmacology, communication studies, and psychology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Opioids remain one of the most controversial agents in the armamentarium of analgesics, yet they are among the most effective therapeutics for many painful complaints. Despite the remarkable effectiveness of opioid analgesics in providing significant pain relief, fears of professional opprobrium, regulatory repercussions and/or adverse effects such as respiratory depression or addiction act as significant disincentives to the prescribing of these drugs...read more

Product Description: Breakthrough pain (BTP) is episodic pain that emerges through the treatment of otherwise well-managed chronic background pain. Often called pain flare or transient pain, BTP negatively affects the function and quality of life of the patient and often results in a number of other physical, psychological and social problems...read more

Product Description: Patients with degenerative neurological disorders are among the most handicapped patients in medicine. Many of these diseases are incurable. Expert palliative care is the duty of every neurologist: however, to date, this has not been a standard feature of neurological practice or training...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Thoroughly revised and updated for its Second Edition, this volume is a practical guide to the management of the myriad symptoms and quality-of-life issues that occur in patients with cancer--including newly diagnosed patients, patients undergoing treatment, cancer survivors, and patients whose disease is no longer curable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Cancer and AIDS often produce similar kinds of pain in many patients, and this pain can cause impairments in physical and psychosocial functioning. Pain control is a fundamental aspect of the treatment of cancer and AIDS. This book, now in its third edition, fills an important need by fully discussing the various pain syndromes, the assessment of pain, and the choices available to physicans to extend pain relief to these patient populations...read more

Product Description: This volume offers definitive guidance in one of the most important areas of oncology, primary care, and oncologic nursing: management of pain and other symptoms associated with cancer and its treatment. A group of experts in supportive care presents practical strategies for managing pain and other symptoms in the newly-diagnosed cancer patient, the patient with end-stage disease, and the growing number of cured cancer patients experiencing symptoms after treatment...read more

Product Description: Cancer and AIDS often produce similar kinds of pain in many patients, and this pain can cause impairments in physical and psychosocial functioning. Pain control is a fundamental aspect of the treatment of cancer and AIDS. This book, now in its third edition, fills an important need by fully discussing the various pain syndromes, the assessment of pain, and the choices available to physicans to extend pain relief to these patient populations...read more

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