Introduction
- Effective pain management in cancer patients with pain is an essential part of oncologic management due to increasing evidence of survival
- Chronic pain syndrome also often occurs following cancer treatments
- Pancreatic, head and neck cancer, and bone metastasis has a high prevalence of cancer pain
- During initial evaluation, follow-ups and new therapy initiation of patients with cancer, it is essential that they be screened and evaluated for pain
Definition
- An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience due to actual or potential tissue damage in patients with cancer
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