Question

What are the underlying principles of cancer pain management? List 5-10 principles.

Answer 1

Management of cancer pain : → Management of cancer pain must be paative and driven by an understanding of pain mechanisms → Cancer pain is one of the most common and problematic Symptoms. * The two main mechanistic Categories are * Nociceptive * Neuropathic pain * Nociceptive pain divided into - Somatic pain - Visceral pain * Neuropathic pain is due to serve compression or 1. injury * opioid therapy is the first line approach. * When Opioids alone do not adequately treat the pain, becaused non-opioid analgesics oo adjuvent analgesice. Analgescu are used in the management of neuropathic and refractvory pain.

* Opioids example - Hydromoophone , Morphine, oxycodone * Non-opioid anabzesics – NSAIDs, which inhibito prostaglandin Synttisi's * Adjuvant analgesics - Duloxetine, venlafaxine Gabapentin, amitryptaline