Cancer Pain Management

A Comprehensive Approach

Edited by Karen H. Simpson and Keith Budd

An international collection of multi-disciplinary contributions covering a diverse spread of pain control needed to supplement simple management
The first book to deal with non-opioid management of pain in cancer patients
Effectively brings together many different aspects of pain management
Multi-professional contributors

Cancer Pain Management

A Comprehensive Approach

Edited by Karen H. Simpson and Keith Budd

Description

Cancer related pain can successfully managed in the majority of patients by the use of medication. Some patients, however, have pain that does not respond to opiods, and require more specialized pain management techniques. Examples of such treatments are nerve blocks, radiotherapy, acupuncture and physiotherapy. This is the first book to provide detailed information on all of the alternative methods of pain management. The editors are experienced researchers researchers who have brought together an international team of pain specialists, palliative medicine doctors and oncologists to provide a practical, comprehensive guide to non-drug management of cancer pain.

Cancer Pain Management

A Comprehensive Approach

Edited by Karen H. Simpson and Keith Budd

1. Philosophy of management of cancer pain
2. Ethical issues in managing cancer pain
3. Psychological support for patients and their families
4. Spiritual help for patients and carers
5. Nursing issues in the management of cancer pain
6. Physiotherapy in the management of cancer pain
7. Non-pharmacological methods for the treatment of pain in children
8. Nerve blocks - simple injections, epidurals, spinal and more complex blocks
9. Complex interventional therapies for intractable cancer pain
10. Percutaneous cordotomy
11. Neurosurgical management of pain
12. General surgical procedures in pain management
13. Acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
14. Spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of cancer-induced pain
15. The role of radiotherapy in the management of cancer pain
16. The role of chemotherapy and hormonal manipulation in cancer pain management
17. Homeopathic medicine

Cancer Pain Management

A Comprehensive Approach

Edited by Karen H. Simpson and Keith Budd

Author Information

Contributors:

Dawn Allison, Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Oncology and Palliative Medicine, University of Leeds and St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Harald Breivik, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anaesthesiology, The National Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Keith Budd, The Mornington Clinic, Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK

Geoffrey Dunn, Hospice Director, Great Lakes Hospice, USA

Anne Elfred, Deputy Superintendent Physiotherapist, St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK

Jacqueline Filshie, Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Management, The Royal Marsden, London, UK

Lorna Foyle

Elliot Krames, Pacific Pain Treatment Centre, San Francisco, USA

Wendy P. Makin, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Care and Oncology, Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, UK

Betty O'Gorman, Superintendent Physiotherapist, St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK

Philippe Poulain, Assistant Professor, Institute Gustave Roussy, France

Suunil K. Rohira, Pacific Pain Treatment Centre, San Francisco, USA

Lynne Russon, Senior Registrar in Palliative Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Suzanne Skevington, Reader in Psychology, University of Bath, UK

Karen H. Simpson, Consultant in Pain Management, Pain Management Service, St James's University Hospital, and Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK

Revd David Stoter, Manager, Chaplaincy Department and Bereavement Centre, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK

Elizabeth A. Thompson, Senior Registrar in Palliative Medicine, St Margaret's Hospice, Clydebank, UK

John W. Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

M. Vieyra, Institute Gustave Roussy, France

Chris Wells, Consultant in Pain Management, Liverpool, UK

Stephen Wilkinson