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The Treatment of Cancer Pain

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  • Kathleen M. Foley, M.D.

ADVANCES in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, coupled with an expanded understanding of the physiology, pharmacology, and psychology of pain perception, have led to improved care of the patient with pain from cancer.1 Improved methods of cancer diagnosis and treatment provide the best approach to managing pain by treating its cause. Before the start of antitumor therapy or when such therapy is unsuccessful or irreversible injury to bone, soft tissue, or nerve has occurred, however, adequate pain control is essential.Management of pain in patients with cancer requires specific expertise that includes a knowledge of the clinical pain syndromes . . .

Funding and Disclosures

Supported in part by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service (CA 32897 and DA 01707) and the Patricia Drake Hemingway Fund.

I am indebted to Dr. Raymond W. Houde for information on the equianalgesic doses of non-narcotic and narcotic analgesics and for his critical review of the manuscript, and to Mary Callaway for assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.

Author Affiliations

From Cornell University Medical College and the Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan—Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Address reprint requests to Dr. Foley at the Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan—Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021.

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