Cancer pain management: recommendations from a Latin-American experts panel

Cancer pain management: recommendations from a Latin-American experts panel

Generating a consensus in the Latin-American region on cancer pain management is a current need. Thus a panel of Latin-American experts met in Madrid in March 2017 in order to review the published literature, discuss the best approach for cancer pain classification and evaluation and also make recom...

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Published in:Future oncology (London, England) Vol. 13; no. 27; pp. 2455 - 2472
Main Authors: Escobar Alvarez, Yolanda, Agamez Insignares, Claudia, Ahumada Olea, Monica, Barajas, Olga, Calderillo, German, Calvache Guamán, Jenny Cecilia, Caponero, Ricardo, Cavenago Salazar, Benjamín A, Del Giglio, Auro, Pupo Araya, Ana Rocío, Villalobos-Valencia, Ricardo, Yepes Pérez, Andrés, Zumelzu Delgado, Nilda
Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: England Future Medicine Ltd 01-11-2017
Subjects:
Analgesics
Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use
Cancer Pain - diagnosis
Cancer Pain - therapy
Cancer therapies
Clinical medicine
Humans
Latin America
Mortality
Narcotics
Pain Management
Palliative care
Patients
Quality of life
Severity of Illness Index
Systematic review
Brazil
Argentina
United Kingdom > UK
Ireland
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Summary:Generating a consensus in the Latin-American region on cancer pain management is a current need. Thus a panel of Latin-American experts met in Madrid in March 2017 in order to review the published literature, discuss the best approach for cancer pain classification and evaluation and also make recommendations of pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies for cancer pain management improvement in Latin-American countries. The result of that meeting is presented in this document. The experts participating were from Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador, and the project coordinator was from Spain.
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ISSN:1479-6694
1744-8301
DOI:10.2217/fon-2017-0288