Main description:

This new edition of the Practical Management of Complex Cancer Pain has been fully updated and expanded, with five new chapters on novel interventional techniques in cancer pain amelioration. The book provides advice on advanced pain management, emphasising the suitability and selection of patients for different invasive and complex procedures based on patient history.

Case histories are included throughout the text to give the reader insight into the complexities of holistic management, with pain being only one component in the distress that cancer causes for both patients and families. The book also covers cancer pain management for patients in a community setting, and the collaboration between pain and palliative medicine.

Concise, practical, and evidence-based, this guide is essential reading for all pain and palliative care specialists in the community, hospital, and hospice settings.

Contents:

A. Introduction and clinical cases
1: Michael Bennett: Definition and pathophysiology of complex cancer pain
2: Michael Bennett and Paul Farquhar Smith: Evidence based pharmacological approaches to management
3: Mahesh Choudhary: Neurolytic blocking agents
4: Paul Eldridge and Deepti Bhargava: Role of surgery in cancer pain management
5: Chinnamani Eswar: Oncological management of cancer pain
6: Arun Bhaskar: Pelvic pain
7: Manohar Sharma, Sanjeeva Gupta, and Lakshmi Vas: Chest wall pain from mesothelioma or lung cancer
8: Lakshmi Vas: Unilateral upper limb plexopathy pain caused by cancer
9: Kate Marley: Unilateral lower limb plexopathy related cancer pain
10: Hemkumar Pushparaj: Upper GI pain from invasive pancreatic cancer
11: Manohar Sharma and Sanjeeva Gupta: Multiple bone metastases/bone fracture related
12: JJohn Titterington, Louise Lynch, and Hemkumar Pushparaj: Intrathecal pump case history
13: Kate Marley and Manohar Sharma: Cancer survivor with pain progression
B. Details of interventional techniques
14: Samyadev Datta: Basic procedure safety and patient considerations for cancer pain interventions
15: Dhanalakshmi Koyyalagunta and Arun Bhaskar: Sympathectomy for cancer pain
16: Kumar S V Das and Shubhabrata Biswas: Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for spinal metastasis pain
17: Manohar Sharma and Ashwin Vishwanathan: Cervical cordotomy (Fluroscopic and CT Guided technique)
18: John Titterington: Intrathecal drug delivery for cancer pain
19: Mahesh Chaudhari: Spinal neurolysis
20: Manohar Sharma and Lakshmi Vas: Interventions for head and neck cancer related pain
21: Paul Eldridge and Deepti Bhargava: Neurosurgical techniques for cancer pain
23: Dmitry Kruglov and Simon Thomson: Spinal cord stimulation for cancer related pain
24: Gaurav Sundar: Radiological tumour ablative techniques
25: Erlick Pereira and Abteen Mostafi: Radiofrequency brain lesioning for cancer related pain
26: Samyadev Datta: Radiofrequency ablation technique for metastatic spine disease
27: Mathew Brown: The role of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in cancer pain management
C. Collaboration between services
28: Kate Marley and Hemkumar Pushparaj: Role of collaboration between pain medicine and palliative care
29: Mathew Brown: Pain in cancer survivors
30: Eugene Choi, Priya Krishaswamy, and Umesh K. Gidwani: Control of complex pain at the end of life in hospice or community setting