Tratamiento del dolor oncológico

  1. Sancho, Azahara
  2. Grande Gascón, María Luisa
  3. Quiben, Rosa
  4. Sancho, José Félix
  5. Méndez Ureña, Miguel
  6. Avila, Carmen
  7. Fernández, Ana
  8. López, Gerardo
  9. Pérez Manga, Gumersindo
  10. Cavallo, Loreto
Revista:
Psicooncología: investigación y clínica biopsicosocial en oncología

ISSN: 1696-7240

Año de publicación: 2006

Volumen: 3

Número: 1

Páginas: 121-138

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Psicooncología: investigación y clínica biopsicosocial en oncología

Resumen

Cancer pain is a global pain that influences all personal dimensions: physical, psychological, social and laboural. Our aim must be an urgent and complete treatment of the pain. For this reason, different treatments against cancer pain are being researched, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, and drug therapy are the main ones, but there are many others, included or not in the list of treatments established by the WHO. It is revised history, epidemiology, therapeutic strategies, aims and barriers of pain cancer and the sanitary problems associated. It is analyzed the side effects and the knowledge of the new drugs: cannabis, psychoactive drugs etc, and it is exposed future ways for the oncological pain control