Cancer Pain Management Scenarios

Pain related to cancer impacts all of your patients, no matter the stage or type of disease. As a result, cancer pain management becomes a strong focus of your practice and you need strategies and information to help your patients cope with this common–and sometimes complicated–issue. Cancer Pain Management Scenarios presents eleven scenarios of patients dealing with varying levels of cancer-related pain. In each scenario, you will be presented with a case study and a series of questions and answers that will help you lead you to a better understanding of how to manage pain. In the scenarios, you will get specific details on such issues as testing and assessment, common causes of pain, symptoms, treatment, and pain management issues such as how to calculate proper dosage, how to determine a proper medication regimen, and how to define drug addiction.