| 书目名称 | Cancer Pain | | 编辑 | Stephen E. Abram | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Current Management of Pain | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The diagnosis of cancer inspires fear, in part because of the high mortality rate associated with most malignancies, and in part because of the perception that cancer is a painful disease. Recently compiled statistics tend to support patients‘ fears. Pain is a major symptom in 70% of patients with advanced cancer [1]. Half of all patients undergoing anticancer therapy experience pain [2]. It has been estimated by members of the World Health Organization that 3. 5 million people worldwide suffer from cancer pain. One study of the severity of cancer pain estimates that pain is moderate to severe in 50% of cancer pain patients, very severe or excruciating in 30% [3]. An analysis of several reports of patients in developed countries estimates that 50-80% of patients had inadequate relief [2]. In underdeveloped countries, adequacy of treatment may be far lower because of lack of availability of medical facilities and legal constraints on the use of potent narcotics. The picture need not be this bleak. The reality is that, for most patients, cancer pain is relatively easy to control with simple, inexpensive measures. Several studies have indicated that cancer pain can be well controlled | | 出版日期 | Book 1989 | | 关键词 | Infusion; Opiate; cancer; cancer therapy; mortality; pain | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0875-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-8223-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-0875-1Series ISSN 0923-2354 | | issn_series | 0923-2354 | | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 1989 |
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