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Filter by:Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide according to International Agency for Research on Cancer. Unfortunately, cancer survivors often face long-term symptoms that occur or persist after completion of treatment. In addition to fatigue, pain is the most common persistent symptom after cancer and cancer treatment. The diagnosis and treatment of pain in cancer survivors is not clear for many physicians. A mechanism-based classification of pain in cancer survivors might be a critical step for clinical reasoning, especially for discrimination of different pain types. The primary aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of the predominant type of pain in Turkish breast cancer survivors using a recent published clinical algorithm.
Balancing Method for Pain Related to Advanced Cancer seeks to confirm the benefit of acupuncture for patients with pain related to advanced cancer.
The efficacy of a mobile health (mHealth) behavioral cancer pain intervention designed to decrease pain and disability for breast cancer patients in medically underserved areas has not been investigated. The long-term goal of this work is to use mHealth technologies to facilitate wide-spread implementation of an efficacious behavioral cancer pain intervention - a non-pharmacological approach to pain management. The proposed project's objective is to demonstrate the efficacy of an innovative mobile health Pain Coping Skills Training (mPCST-Community) designed to meet the needs of breast cancer patients with pain in medically underserved areas. mPCST-Community addresses intervention barriers for patients in medically underserved areas as it is delivered with video-conferencing in the patients' community based oncology clinic by a remote therapist, is extended to the patients' home environment using simple mHealth technology, and is low-literacy adapted. The central hypothesis is that mPCST-Community will result in decreased pain compared to a mHealth education attention control group (mHealth-Ed). The rationale of this proposal is that if mPCST-Community is shown to be efficacious it will rapidly increase intervention access for individuals who receive their oncology care in medically underserved areas and ultimately reduce pain-related suffering. Guided by strong preliminary data, a randomized controlled trial will be used to pursue three specific aims: 1) Test the extent to which the mPCST-Community intervention reduces pain, fatigue, disability, and distress, 2) Examine self-efficacy and pain catastrophizing as mediators through which the mPCST-Community leads to reductions in pain, fatigue, disability, and distress, and 3) To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of mPCST-Community. For Aim 1, based on the study team's extensive work demonstrating the efficacy of in-person pain coping skills training protocols and pilot work showing promise for mPCST-Community, it is expected that mPCST-Community will lead to decreased pain as well as fatigue, disability, and distress compared to mHealth-Ed. For Aim 2, it is expected that the effects of mPCST-Community will be mediated by increased self-efficacy for pain control and decreased pain catastrophizing. For Aim 3, it is expected that mPCST-Community will demonstrate cost-effectiveness as assessed by all-cause medical resource use, participant and therapist time, and health utilities as well as successful overall accrual, high subject retention, and high intervention adherence.
Introduction; World Health Organization (WHO) analgesic ladder; Step I recommends non-opioid analgesics for mild pain. Step II specifies the use of weak opioids for moderate pain. Step III comprises the use of strong opioids for severe pain. Cancer pain management using opioids administered alone or in combination with adjuvant analgesics. Corticosteroids adjuvant use for neuropathic and bone pain treatment. However, despite widespread use of corticosteroids, scientific evidence about its efficacy in cancer pain management is limited. This protocol aims to clarify pors and cons of interrupted steroid dosing in chronic cancer pain WHO stepladder analgesia protocol. Methods; Prospective quizi-pre-post experimental study will be conducted after IRB approval in the Mansoura oncology canter pain clinic-Faculty of medicine Mansoura University Egypt. Verbal informed consent will be obtained from the respondents (patients) for the interview. Furthermore, the data collected from each patient will be kept confidential and used strictly only for the purpose of the study. Patients will be allocated as single group and will take oral prednisolone (sulopride10 mg) single dose every two days for 4 successive weeks then the next two weeks as washout period (stop dosing gradually by taking 5 mgs for 3 successive dosing every 2nd day over a week, then stop the oral steroid drug totally over the 2nd week of the washout period. The second period of the study will start by taking the oral prednisolone (sulopride10 mg) every fourth day for the next 4 weeks after which the patient will get another washout two weeks period (stop dosing gradually 5 mgs for 3 successive dosing every 4th day then stop the drug totally).A questionnaire-based interview using Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-sf) (16) based on VAS pain score as a rough tool for pain intensity Data collection: Primary Outcome: global Pain intensity, assessed by a visual analogue scale (VAS) 0-10. Secondary outcomes based on the Brief Pain Inventory short form (BPI-sf).
The aim of this research is to study the influence of stochastic modulated vibrations on the autonomic nervous system of breast cancer patients during radiation therapy
The purpose of this study is to compare the long-term effectiveness of acupuncture versus massage in people living with advanced cancer. The study will test how the two approaches compare in helping people with pain and its related symptoms and improving quality of life.
The study will compare the efficacy and safety of Ropivacaine/dexamethasone vs 10% lignocaine injection in distal glossopharyngeal nerve block for intractable cancer pain
To assess whether the patient's self-reported pain level is associated with a multivariate physiological biomarker bias achieved in the actual clinical setting. This study will use a clinical-grade wearable sensor to continuously monitor the patient's physiological condition (pain-related biomarkers) and use the mobile app to allow participants to actively report their pain scores, symptoms and quality of life.After analysis of the biomarkers we may predict the coming pain attacks by way of the meaningful biomarkers.
This phase 2 multicenter clinical trial assess the safety and efficacy of inhaled PPP001 to relieve the pain in 78 advanced cancer patients with uncontrolled symptoms. This is a 4-week treatment period study followed by an open label period of 1 year.
The aims of this proposal are to (1) examine the feasibility of providing a training course of Auricular Point Acupressure (APA) for clinical oncology nurses who can integrate APA into real-world nursing care settings and (2) examine the effectiveness of APA on cancer-related pain (CRP) under the usual conditions.