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ArticleThe Korean journal of pain2013

Painful boney metastases.

Howard S Smith, Intikhab Mohsin

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Article in The Korean journal of pain, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Comparison of twice weekly palliative RT versus continuous hypofractionated palliative RT for painful bone metastases.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2023
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  8. Predictors of analgesic efficacy of neurolytic celiac plexus block in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer: the importance of timing.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Howard S SmithDepartment of Anesthesiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA.
Intikhab Mohsin

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Boney metastasis may lead to terrible suffering from debilitating pain. The most likely malignancies that spread to bone are prostate, breast, and lung. Painful osseous metastases are typically associated with multiple episodes of breakthrough pain which may occur with activities of daily living, weight bearing, lifting, coughing, and sneezing. Almost half of these breakthrough pain episodes are rapid in onset and short in duration and 44% of episodes are unpredictable. Treatment strategies include: analgesic approaches with "triple opioid therapy", bisphosphonates, chemotherapeutic agents, hormonal therapy, interventional and surgical approaches, steroids, radiation (external beam radiation, radiopharmaceuticals), ablative techniques (radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation), and intrathecal analgesics.

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boney metastasesbreakthroughcancerpaintriple opioid therapy

Identifiers

PMID23861996
PMCPMC3710936

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