The point of pain in head and neck cancer
| Autor: | Orietta Caspiani, Paolo Bossi, Mario Airoldi, Marco Siano, Daniela Alterio, Salvatore Alfieri, Vitaliana De Sanctis, T. Tartaro, Raffaele Giusti, Achille Tarsitano |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Bossi P., Giusti R., Tarsitano A., Airoldi M., De Sanctis V., Caspiani O., Alterio D., Tartaro T., Alfieri S., Siano M. |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Quality of life
0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Pain Disease Clinical research 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Pain assessment Mucositis medicine Humans Pain Management Head and neck cancer Intensive care medicine Cancer survivor Head and Neck Neoplasm business.industry Cancer Pain Hematology medicine.disease Dysphagia 030104 developmental biology Oncology Head and Neck Neoplasms 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis clinical research head and neck cancer pain quality of life medicine.symptom Quality of Life Cancer pain business Human |
| Zdroj: | Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 138:51-59 |
| ISSN: | 1040-8428 |
| Popis: | Head and neck cancer (HNC) can have a devastating impact on patient's lives as both disease and treatment may affect the ability to speak, swallow and breathe. These conditions limit the oral intake of food and drugs, reduce social functioning and impact on patient's quality of life. Up to 80% of patients suffering from HNC have pain due to the spread of the primary tumor, because of consequences of surgery, or by developing oral mucositis, dysphagia or neuropathy as toxic side effects of radiotherapy, chemotherapy or both. All healthcare professionals caring for HNC patients should assess palliative and supportive care needs in initial treatment planning and throughout the disease, with awareness when specialist palliative care expertise is needed. This paper focuses on assessment, characterizations and clinical management of pain in advanced HNC patients undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, also underlining the importance of symptom assessment in HNC survivors and the need of clinical research in this field. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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