This book provides insights into what are commonly treated as unrelated disciplines, when in fact cancer care and palliative care have much to teach each other when it comes to oncology patients.
Table of Contents
PART I: Introduction1. A New Era in Cancer Treatment: what has changed
2. The difference between early and late palliative care
3. The concept of total pain in palliative care
4. Pain assessment in palliative care
PART II: Pharmacological treatment of pain
5. Opioids and non-opioids in pain treatment
6. Adjuvant and new analgesics
7. The use of chemotherapy as pain treatment
8. Managing side-effects of analgesics
PART III: Interventional treatment of pain
9. Radiotherapy and brachytherapy
10. Nuclear medicine in pain treatment
11. Surgical interventions in pain treatment
12. Physical therapy in pain treatment
13. Other interventions in pain treatment
PART IV: Complementary therapies in pain management
14. Treating spiritual and psychological aspects of pain
15. Treating anxiety, dyspnea, and other conditions associated with painful stimuli
16. Virtual reality and music therapy in pain management
17. Nutrition and pain
PART V: Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
18. Head and neck and upper GI cancers
19. Lower gastrointestinal cancers
20. Hepatobiliary cancers
21. Lung and intrathoracic cancers
22. Breast cancers
23. Gynecological and urologic cancers
24. Mesenchymal cancers
25. Treating pain after cancer treatment
PART VI. Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
26. Treating pain in the End-of-Life Care
27. Treating pain in Liver and Renal Insufficiency
28. Treating pain in Children and Very Old Patients
29. Ethical dilemmas in pain management
PART VII. Future of pain treatment in palliative care
30. Future avenues in pain management
31. Implementation of guidelines in pain treatment
32. Coping with pain in patients’ families and medical staff
Opioid Conversion Charts
Practical Examples
Authors
Marin Golcic University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Croatia.Dr. Marin Golcic is a Medical Oncologist consultant currently associated with University Medical Hospital and Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, Croatia where he is providing oncology education on several different courses. He also has with working experience in the first Croatian Hospice, where he obtained his PhD in 2019, published several high-impact palliative care manuscripts and is currently serving as a Chairperson of the Pharmacotherapy Committee. Dr Golcic has taken part in several ESMO and ASCO Programmes and received a ESMO Palliative Care Fellowship in 2017 leading to a programme in The Royal Marsden, UK. He published 19 peer-reviewed scientific papers, serves as a scientific reviewer for various journals including BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care and American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr Golcic also wrote a book chapter on Palliative and Hospice are in the Republic of Croatia (Silbermann et al, Springer 2021).
Tomi Kovacevic Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.Dr Tomi Kovacsevity is a Palliative Medicine Specialist, the first one in Serbia since 2017, who is supporting patients with a cancer diagnosis through supportive and palliative care and attending supplemental education in the field of oncology. He currently works at the Institute for pulmonary diseases of Vojvodina in Serbia, and is associated with Faculty of Medicine in University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He holds a PhD in Medical Science and recently completed an EUPCA leadership in Palliative Care (EQF 7). He also serves on an Expert Committee for Palliative Care in Ministry of Health in the Republic of Serbia as well as a consultat on European Training Academy EUTA in Belgrade, Serbia. Dr Kovacevic is educated in Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Leadership, Applied Engineering in Health Management, and is involved in International Projects, giving him a unique insight into real-world data and practice in pain treatment.
Amir Radfar A.T. Still University, USA. Professor Amir Radfar is an assistant professor in Medical Education in University of Central Florida, with Postgraduate education both in Oncology (Harvard Medical School, USA) and Palliative Care (EUPCA Leadership Course, Germany), which makes him an ideal editor for a book on both topics. Professor Radfar is working as a Director of Research Services in Avicenna Medical and Clinical Research Institute and is a co-author and collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease Study (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA). He functions also as an institutional representative at International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care and is a board member of MEDICHEM. His editorial activities include serving as an academic editor for PLOS ONE, the Journal of Oncology and the Journal of Environmental and Publlic Health.
