Cancer Pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practice Review | Zendy

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Cancer Pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practice Review

Author(s) -

Elizabeth Namukwaya,

Mhoira Leng,

Julia Downing,

Elly Katabira

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

pain research and treatment

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475

H-Index - 29

eISSN - 2090-1550

pISSN - 2090-1542

DOI - 10.1155/2011/393404

Subject(s) - medicine , cancer pain , pain management , cancer , resource (disambiguation) , intensive care medicine , physical therapy , computer network , computer science

Pain in cancer is a common and burdensome symptom with different causes but in a significant number of cases it is undiagnosed and undertreated because of lack of skills for its assessment. Pain has significant negative impact on the patient and, therefore, it needs to be managed urgently and appropriately. In resource-limited settings, there are several barriers and challenges to pain management but even in these circumstances pain can be well managed with planned and innovative use of resources and if the World Health Organization public health system approach is used to ensure opioid availability.

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