| Abstract: |
Pain is one of the most common symptoms experienced by cancer patients, and pain can affect patients at presentation and is even more prevalent in advanced stages. Controlling cancer-related pain is critical to preserving patient quality of life. Bone metastases and related pain are the most common chronic pain syndrome in cancer patients, often secondary to lung, breast, and prostate cancers. Other common types of chronic cancer pain are related to organ metastases, headache, facial pain, nerve damage and related types of neuropathic pain, and paraneoplastic nociceptive syndromes. In addition, there are numerous chronic pain syndromes that can arise secondary to cancer treatment, including surgical intervention, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. This chapter will review all of these chronic cancer pain syndromes, as well as discuss various types of intervention to relieve cancer pain. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
