Compact clinical guide to cancer pain management : an evidence-based approach for nurses / Pamela Stitzlein Davies, Yvonne D'Arcy ; Yvonne D'Arcy, series editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of cancer pain -- Assessing pain in patients with cancer -- Using nonopioid medications for cancer pain management -- Opioid medications for cancer pain -- Coanalgesics for additive pain relief in cancer patients -- Management of side effects from pain medications -- Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) techniques for managing cancer pain -- Infusions and regional techniques -- Specialty blocks and implanted techniques for cancer pain management -- Palliative chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery for pain control -- The effect of opioid polymorphisms and other physiologic factors on treating cancer pain -- Opioid addiction, dependency, and tolerance in pateints with cancer -- Developing a comprehensive plan of care and prescribing safely -- Cancer pain emergencies -- Neuropathic pain -- Myofascial pain -- Chronic pain in the cancer survivor -- Palliative care and hospice: care when there is no cure -- Pain management at the end of life -- Psychosocial aspects of cancer pain.