... Cruz Mañas Background: The effect of anesthetic techniques on cancer recurrence has been the subject of intensive research in the past years, as it affects a large proportion of the population. The use of opioids and halogenated agents in cancer patients during the perioperative period may be related...

...Satoshi Hara Metastatic bone pain is characteristic of cancer pain. Satisfactory analgesic effects are achieved in more than 70% of patients with cancer pain who receive a combination of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids, according to the WHO therapeutic guidelines. Morphine...

.... Almost half use a combination of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and a weak opioid, and only 13% use a combination of a strong opioid and an NSAID. Only 17% of the respondents start oral medications in the recovery room. The majority (90%) claim that they personally attend to their patients...

... appropriate therapy and an increased use of multiple drug therapy – ‘rational polypharmacy’. Traditional opinions concerning the treatment of NeP have been challenged and it is because of this that the use of opioids in NeP has been re-evaluated. Opioids will never replace tricyclic antidepressants and anti...

... [ 1,2,3 ]. This is a problem that affects 14.73% of the patients attended in acute palliative care units [ 4 ], and 25–50% of those attending specialized pain clinics [ 5 ]. Whereas a decade ago NCP was erroneously universally considered to be ‘opioid resistant’, nowadays opioids are thought to be one...

..., admission status and cancer treatment We classified analgesics into three groups according to the WHO ladder [ 3, 4, 10 ]; level 1: non-opioids such as salicylate, acetaminophen, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including ibuprofen, naproxen, piroxicam, etodolac, tramadol, and aceclofenac...

...Kyriaki Mystakidou; Sofia Befon; Eleni Tsilika; Kostas Dardoufas; Stavroula Georgaki; Lambros Vlahos Background: Up to now, a transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) of fentanyl has been applied to cancer patients on opioid analgesics previously treated with mild opioids or morphine. The aim...