CANCER PAIN: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Eduardo Bruera and Russell Portenoy (Eds)
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Cambridge University Press, 2003
485 pp
ISBN 0-521-77332-6
RRP $US160, £90, $AUD399
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The purpose of this book “is to provide a comprehensive, clinically oriented, and scholarly review of all aspects of this complex and multidimensional problem.” And the systematic review in
chapter 2 emphasises the magnitude of the problem – 74% (range 53-100%) of patients with advanced cancer have pain.
The coverage is comprehensive. There are sections on the biology and prevalence of pain in cancer, the assessment of cancer pain
and cancer pain syndromes, pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy. These are followed by discussions of the role of antineoplastic therapy, pain in special populations and difficult
pain problems.
This is a well-organized book with a distinguished list of contributors. It achieves the editors’ goals and would be a worthwhile
addition to the library of Oncology units and palliative care services.
Roger Woodruff
Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
(January 2004)
Author Information
Eduardo Bruera is Professor of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, Texas, USA.
Russell Portenoy is Chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New
York, USA.
Table of Contents
Part I. Mechanisms and Epidemiology
1. Nociception - basic principles
Suzuki and Dickenson
2. Epidemiology of cancer pain - a systematic review
Hearn and Higginson
3. Cancer pain - prevalence and undertreatment
O'Mahoney
Part II. Assessment and Syndromes
4. The assessment of cancer pain
Anderson and Cleeland
5. Multidimensional assessment - pain and palliative care
Lawlor
6. Cancer pain syndromes
Portenoy and Conn
Part III. Pharmacological Treatment
7. Pharmacology of analgesia - basic principles
Inturrisi
8. Pharmacology of opioid analgesia - clinical principles
Ripamonti
9. Opioid side effects and management
Sweeney and Bruera
10. Non-opioid analgesics
Hinz, Zeilhofer and Brune
11. Adjuvant analgesic drugs
Portenoy and Rowe
Part IV. Non-Pharmacological Approaches
12. Anesthesiological procedures
Walker and Cousins
13. Psychological interventions
Novy
14 Rehabilitation medicine interventions
Gillis
15. Neurosurgical techniques in the management of cancer pain
Hassenbusch and Johns
Part V. The Role of Antineoplastic Therapies in Pain Control
16. Palliative radiotherapy
Janjan, Delclos, Ballo and Crane
17. Palliative systemic antineoplastic therapy
Fisch
Part VI. Pain in Special Populations
18. Cancer pain management in the chemically-dependent patient
Passik, Kirsh and Mullen
19. Cancer pain in children
Collins and Berde
20. Cancer pain in the elderly
Wollner
Part VII. Difficult Pain Problems
21 Cancer pain and depression
Rouhani, Saifollahi and Breitbart
22. Neuropathic pain
Watling and Moulin
23. Breakthrough pain
Fine
24. Bone pain
Bruera and Sweeney
Part VIII. Special Topics
25. Pain in medical illness - ethical foundations
Lesage and Portenoy
26. Clinical research
Farrar and Halpern
27. Legal and regulatory aspects of opioid treatment - The United States experience
Dahl
28. Role of family caregivers in cancer pain management
Glajchen.
Index
