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Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review
Quality of life (QoL) encompasses the physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual dimensions of life lived by a person. Cancer pain is one of the physical component has tremendous impact on the QoL of the patient. Cancer pain is multifaceted and complex to understand and managing cancer pain involv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25709198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.150202 |
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author | Singh, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Aditi |
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description | Quality of life (QoL) encompasses the physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual dimensions of life lived by a person. Cancer pain is one of the physical component has tremendous impact on the QoL of the patient. Cancer pain is multifaceted and complex to understand and managing cancer pain involves a tool box full of pharmacological and non pharmacological interventions but still there are 50-70% of cancer patients who suffer from uncontrolled pain and they fear pain more than death. Aggressive surgeries, radiotherapy and chemotherapy focus more on prolonging the survival of the patient failing to realize that the QoL lived also matters equally. This paper reviews complementary and alternative therapy approaches for cancer pain and its impact in improving the QoL of cancer patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-43321152015-02-23 Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review Singh, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Aditi Indian J Palliat Care Practitioner Section Quality of life (QoL) encompasses the physical, psychosocial, social and spiritual dimensions of life lived by a person. Cancer pain is one of the physical component has tremendous impact on the QoL of the patient. Cancer pain is multifaceted and complex to understand and managing cancer pain involves a tool box full of pharmacological and non pharmacological interventions but still there are 50-70% of cancer patients who suffer from uncontrolled pain and they fear pain more than death. Aggressive surgeries, radiotherapy and chemotherapy focus more on prolonging the survival of the patient failing to realize that the QoL lived also matters equally. This paper reviews complementary and alternative therapy approaches for cancer pain and its impact in improving the QoL of cancer patients. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4332115/ /pubmed/25709198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.150202 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Practitioner Section Singh, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Aditi Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title | Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Pain Management: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | complementary and alternative medicine in cancer pain management: a systematic review |
topic | Practitioner Section |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25709198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.150202 |
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