Strengthening the comprehensive management of concomitant diseases of breast cancer: pain management
YANG Xiao-qiu
Abstract：Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women and pain is the main and important accompanying symptom. Pain can occur in all stages of breast cancer due to invasion of tumors, compression of surrounding tissues, metastasis of tumors, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and psychological factors. Standardized cancer pain management could effectively control cancer pain, improve the quality of life, build up confidence in anticancer treatment, prolong the survival rate and reduce the medical costs for the patients. Cancer pain management is a comprehensive, all-round and dynamic process and pain assessment is the basis for pain management. Appropriate methods should be selected to carry out"routine, quantitative, comprehensive and dynamic"assessment. The treatment of cancer pain should reach the standard and achieve painless rest, painless sleep and painless motion. Drug therapy for cancer pain should follow the WHO's"three-step analgesic scheme"and basic principles, which has to be selected and applied scientifically and rationally. Meanwhile, it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of adverse drug reactions. Timely non-drug treatment can improve the analgesic effect and reduce the adverse reactions.
Keywords：Breast cancerPainManagementStandardization
Publication Date：2019-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 130-134 )