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5a - Mechanisms of disease-related pain in cancer: insights from the study of bone tumors

from Section 2 - Cancer Symptom Mechanisms and Models: Clinical and Basic Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

By
Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade  and
Patrick W. Mantyh
Edited by
Charles S. Cleeland ,
Michael J. Fisch  and
Adrian J. Dunn
Juan Miguel Jimenez-Andrade
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Patrick W. Mantyh
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Charles S. Cleeland
Affiliation:
University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Michael J. Fisch
Affiliation:
University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Adrian J. Dunn
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Summary

More than 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer (other than skin cancer) every year, and this number is expected to increase to 15 million per year by 2020. In 2005, cancer caused 7.6 million deaths worldwide. Cancer is a major health problem in the United States: 25% of US mortalities are related to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death.

Despite the increasing prevalence of cancer, improvements in the detection and treatment of most types of cancers have resulted in significantly increased survival rates. Pain is the first sign of cancer for many patients, most of whom will experience moderate to severe pain during the course of their disease and even into survivorship. Cancer-associated pain can be present at any time during the course of the disease, but the frequency and intensity of cancer pain tends to increase as the disease progresses, such that 62% to 86% of patients with advanced-stage cancer experience significant amounts of cancer-induced pain. If cancer patients and survivors, given their increasing life spans, are to remain functional, integrated, and contributing members of society, novel mechanism-based therapies will need to be developed to reduce cancer-related pain.

Cancer pain may arise from different processes: by direct tumor infiltration or involvement, as a result of diagnostic or therapeutic surgical procedures (eg, biopsies, resection), or as a side effect or toxicity related to therapies used to treat cancer (eg, chemotherapy, radiation therapy).

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Cancer Symptom Science
Measurement, Mechanisms, and Management
 , pp. 32 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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