Author Description

The optimal management of cancer pain continues to be a challenge throughout the world despite nearly two decades of emphasis on the need for more aggressive and effective treatments. The clinician's problem is first to find the cause of the pain and then to initiate individualized treatments. Critical to this process is the analysis, by objective measures, of the outcomes of therapies with the ultimate goal of patient comfort. This book discusses new aspects of pain assessment and provides up-to-date information on pharmacological, anesthetic, and neuro-surgical therapies. It also provides new information on common but difficult-to-manage pain syndromes such as metastatic bone pain and neuropathic pain.