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20489192

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-5-21
pubmed:abstractText
Cancer-related neuropathic pain syndromes are common and serious complications of a patient's primary malignancy or its treatment, whether by surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. They may compromise the patient's quality of life as well as their ability to receive effective treatment. In many patients, there may be more than one coexistent neuropathic pain syndrome, posing a diagnostic dilemma that, if unresolved, may result in the institution of therapies that are of limited scope or not targeted at the primary underlying pathophysiology. There is no single adequate diagnostic method that has been established to reliably diagnose or follow patients with cancer-related neuropathic pain syndromes. Clinical assessment of cancer-related neuropathic pain poses some important challenges diagnostically as well as in defining a clear and reliable endpoint assessment in controlled clinical trials. Many different approaches have been applied to the development of assessment or diagnostic tools. Careful review of these methods has been helpful in developing a clearer vision for the future design and refinement of more reliable tools, and more importantly, validation of the clinical utility as well as the reliability of such tools when employed as endpoints in clinical trials focused on prevention, mitigation, or treatment of cancer neuropathic pain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1549-490X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
15 Suppl 2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Assessment of cancer-related neuropathy and neuropathic pain.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review