The epidemiology of cancer pain

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 182-190

  Goudas, Leonidas C ^a   Bloch, Rina ^a   Gialeli Goudas, Maria ^a   Lau, Joseph ^a   Carr, Daniel B ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Evidence based; Neoplasm; Pain; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CODEINE SULFATE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE NAPSILATE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE; NALBUPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PENTAZOCINE; PETHIDINE;

CANCER PAIN; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; EXPERIENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16244385028     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: 15324192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CNV-50482     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1999; Ries, L.A.G., Eisner, M. P., Kosary, C.L., Hankey, B.F., Miller, B.A., Clegg, L., Edwards, B.K., Eds.; National Cancer Institute: Bethesda, MD, 2002; http://seer.cancer. gov/csr/1973_1999/. (accessed February 2003).
2. Portenoy, R.K.; Lesage, P. Management of cancer pain. Lancet 1999, 353, 1695-1700.
3. Goudas, L.; Carr, D.; Bloch, R.; Balk, E.; Ioannidis, J.P.; Terrin, N.; Gialeli-Goudas, M.; Chew, P.; Lau, J. Management of Cancer Pain. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 35 (Contract 290-97-0019 to the New England Medical Center). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD, 2001; http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/capainv.htm.
4. Carr, D.; Goudas, L.; Lawrence, D.; Pirl, W.; Lau, J.; DeVine, D.; Kupelnick, B.; Miller, K. Management of Cancer Symptoms: Pain, Depression, and Fatigue. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment. Number 61. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD, 2002; www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/casyminv.htm.
5. Hiraga, K.; Mizuguchi, T.; Takeda, F. The incidence of cancer pain and improvement of pain management in Japan. Postgrad Med J 1991, 67 (Suppl. 2), S14-S25.
6. Bernabei, R.; Gambassi, G.; Lapane, K.; Lani, F.; Gatsonis, C.; Dunlop, R.; Lipsitz, L.; Steel, K.; Mor, V. Management of pain in elderly patients with cancer. SAGE Study Group. Systematic Assessment of Geriatric Drug Use via Epidemiology. JAMA 1998, 279 (23), 1877-1882.
7. Brescia, F.J.; Portenoy, R.K.; Krasnoff; Gray, G. Pain, opioid use, and survival in hospitalized patients with advanced cancer. J. Clin. Oncol. 1992, 10 (1), 149-155.
8. Cleeland, C.S.; Gonin, R.; Hatfield, A.K.; Edmosnson, J.H.; Blum, R.H.; Stewart, J.A.; Pandya, K.J. Pain and its treatment in outpatients with metastatic cancer. N. Engl. J. Med. 1994, 3 (9), 592-596 330.
9. Vainio, A.; Auvinen, A. Prevalence of symptoms among patients with advanced cancer: an international collaborative study. Symptom Prevalence Group. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 1996, 12 (1), 3-10.
10. Grond, S.; Zech, D.; Diefenbach, C.; Radbruch, L.; Lehmann, K. Assessment of cancer pain: a prospective evaluation in 2266 cancer patients referred to a pain service. Pain 1996, 64 (1), 107-114.
11. Daut, R.L.; Cleeland, C.S. The prevalence and severity of pain in cancer. Cancer 1982, 50 (9), 1913-1918.
12. Ahles, T.A.; Ruckdeschel, J.C.; Blanchard, E.B. Cancer-related pain-1. Prevalence in an outpatient setting as a function of stage of disease and type of cancer. J. Psychosom. Res. 1984, 28 (2), 115-119.
13. Gilbert, M.R.; Grossman, S.A. Incidence and nature of neurologic problems in patients with solid tumors. Am. J. Med. 1986, 81 (6), 951-954.
14. Miser, A.W.; Dothage, J.A.; Wesley, R.A.; Miser, J.S. The prevalence of pain in a pediatric and young adult cancer population. Pain 1987, 29 (1), 73-83.
15. Miser, A.W.; McCalla, J.; Dothage, J.A.; Wesley, M.; Miser, J.A. Pain as a presenting symptom in children and young adults with newly diagnosed malignancy. Pain 1987, 29 (1), 85-90.
16. Larue, F.; Colleau, S.M.; Brasseur, L.; Cleeland, S.C. Multicentre study of cancer pain and its treatment in France. BMJ 1995, 310 (6986), 1034-1037.
17. Higginson, I.J.; Hearn, J. A multicenter evaluation of cancer pain control by palliative care teams. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 1997, 14 (1), 29-35.
18. Chang, V.T.; Hwang, S.S.; Feuerman, M.; Kasimis, B.S. Symptom and quality of life survey of medical oncology patients at a veterans affairs medical center: a role for symptom assessment. Cancer 2000, 88 (5), 1175-1183.
19. Meuser, T.; Pietruck, C.; Radbruch, L.; Stute, P.; Lehmann, K.A.; Grond, S. Symptoms during cancer pain treatment following WHO-guidelines: a longitudinal follow-up study of symptom prevalence, severity and etiology. Pain 2001, 93 (3), 247-257.
20. Caraceni, A.; Portenoy, R.K.; A Working Group of the IASP Task Force on Cancer Pain. An international survey of cancer pain characteristics and syndromes. Pain 1999, 82, 263-274.
21. Portenoy, R.K.; Hagen, N.A. Breakthrough pain: definition, prevalence and characteristics. Pain 1990, 41 (3), 273-281.
22. Petzke, F.; Radbruch, L.; Zech, D.; Loick, G.; Grond, S. Temporal presentation of chronic cancer pain: transitory pains on admission to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 1999, 17 (6), 391-401.
23. Zeppetella, G.; O'Doherty, C.A.; Collins, S. Prevalence and characteristics of breakthrough pain in cancer patients admitted to a hospice. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 2000, 20 (2), 87-92.
24. Portenoy, R.K.; Payne, D.; Jacobsen, P. Breakthrough pain: characteristics and impact in patients with cancer pain. Pain 1999, 81, 129-134.
25. Hwang, S.S.; Chang, V.T.; Kasimis, B. Cancer breakthrough pain characteristics and responses to treatment at a VA medical center. Pain 2003, 101, 55-64.
26. Stevens, P.E.; Dibble, S.L.; Miaskowski, C. Prevalence, characteristics, and impact of postmastectomy pain syndrome: an investigation of women's experiences. Pain 1995, 61 (1), 61-68.
27. Tasmuth, T.; vonSmitten, K.; Kalso, E. Pain and other symptoms during the first year after radical and conservative surgery for breast cancer. Br. J. Cancer 1996, 74 (12), 2024-2031.
28. Greenwald, H.P.; Bonica, J.J.; Bergner. M. The prevalence of pain in four cancers. Cancer 1987, 60 (10), 2563-2569.
29. Portenoy, R.K.; Miransky, J.; Thaler, H.T.; Hornung, J., Bianchi, C.; Cibas-Kong, I.; Feldhamer, E.; Lewis, F.; Matamoros, I.; Sugar, M.Z.; Olivieri, A.P.; Kemeny, N.E.; Foley, K.M. Pain in ambulatory patients with lung or colon cancer. Prevalence, characteristics, and effect. Cancer 1992, 70 (6), 1616-1624.
30. Portenoy, R.K.; Kornblith, A.B.; Wong, G.; Vlamis, V.; McCarthy Lepore, J.; Loseth, D.B.; Hakes, T.; Foley, K.M.; Hoskins, W.J. Pain in ovarian cancer patients. Prevalence, characteristics, and associated symptoms. Cancer 1994, 74 (3), 907-915.
31. Kelsen, D.P.; Portenoy, R.K.; Thaler, H.T.; Niedzwiecki, D.; Passik, S.D.; Tao, Y.; Banks, W.; Brennan, M.F.; Foley, K.M. Pain and depression in patients with newly diagnosed pancreas cancer. J. Clin. Oncol. 1995, 13 (3), 748-755.
32. Vuorinen, E. Pain as an early symptom in cancer. Clin. J. Pain. 1993, 9 (4), 272-278.
33. Ger, L.P.; Ho, S.T.; Wang, J.J.; Cherng, C.-H. The prevalence and severity of cancer pain: a study of newly-diagnosed cancer patients in Taiwan. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 1998, 15 (5), 285-293.
34. Coyle, N.; Adelhardt, J., Foley, K.M.; Portenoy, R.K. Character of terminal illness in the advanced cancer patient: pain and other symptoms during the last four weeks of life. J. Pain Symptom Manage. 1990, 5 (2), 83-93.
35. Mercadante, S.; Armata, M.; Salvaggio, L. Pain characteristics of advanced lung cancer patients referred to a palliative care service. Pain 1994, 59 (1), 141-145.
36. Beck, S.L.; Falkson, G. Prevalence and management of cancer pain in South Africa. Pain 2001, 94 (1), 75-84.
37. Eisenberg, D.M.; Kessler, R.C.; Foster, C.; Norlock, F.E.; Calkins, D.R.; Delbanco, T.L. Unconventional medicine in the United States. Prevalence, costs, and patterns of use. N. Engl. J. Med. January 18, 1993, 328 (4), 246-252.
38. Cleeland, C.S.; Gonin, R.; Baez, L.; Loehrer, P.; Pandya, K.J. Pain and treatment of pain in minority patients with cancer. Ann. Int. Med. 1997, 127 (9), 813-816.
39. Ferrell, B.R.; Ferrell, B.A. Pain in the Elderly. A report of the Task Force on Pain in the Elderly of the International Association for the Study of Pain; IASP Press: Seattle, 1996.
40. vonKorff, M. Epidemiological methods. In Epidemiology of Pain; Crombie, I.K., Croft, P.R., Linton, S.J., LeResche, L., von Korff, M., Eds.; IASP Press: Seattle. 1999: 7-15.
41. Classification of Chronic Pain. Description of Chronic Pain Syndromes and Definitions of Pain Terms, 2nd Ed.; Merskey, H., Bogduk, N., Eds.; IASP Press: Seattle, 1994.
42. Macrae, W.A.; Davies, H.T.O. Chronic postsurgical pain. In Epidemiology of Pain; Crombie, I.K., Croft, P.R., Linton, S.J., LeResche, L., von Korff, M., Eds.; IASP Press: Seattle, 1999; 125-142.
43. Perkins, F.M.; Kehlet, H. Chronic pain as an outcome of surgery. A review of predictive factors. Anesthesiology 2000, 93 (4), 1123-1133.