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Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain

Neuropathic pain in cancer is common and debilitating. It is important to differentiate neuropathic pain from other cancer-related pains as it is associated with worse pain outcomes and requires different treatment strategies. This review summarises recent updates to pain classification, aetiology,...

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Autores principales: Edwards, Helen L., Mulvey, Matthew R., Bennett, Michael I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6468770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30884837
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11030373
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description Neuropathic pain in cancer is common and debilitating. It is important to differentiate neuropathic pain from other cancer-related pains as it is associated with worse pain outcomes and requires different treatment strategies. This review summarises recent updates to pain classification, aetiology, pain assessment and current recommendations for treatment in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain.
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spelling pubmed-64687702019-04-24 Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain Edwards, Helen L. Mulvey, Matthew R. Bennett, Michael I. Cancers (Basel) Review Neuropathic pain in cancer is common and debilitating. It is important to differentiate neuropathic pain from other cancer-related pains as it is associated with worse pain outcomes and requires different treatment strategies. This review summarises recent updates to pain classification, aetiology, pain assessment and current recommendations for treatment in patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain. MDPI 2019-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6468770/ /pubmed/30884837 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers11030373 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6468770/
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