Untreatable pain resulting from abdominal cancer: New hope from biophysics?

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Marineo, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Cybernetics; Drug resistance; Hyperalgesia; Information theory; Intractable; Pain; Pain threshold; Palliative care; Pancreatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RESISTANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH CANCER; TERMINAL DISEASE; VISCERAL PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; BIOPHYSICS; COLON TUMOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRACTABLE PAIN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; STOMACH TUMOR; TERMINAL CARE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; BIOPHYSICS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0037271981     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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