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Pancreas cancer causes pain in 70% of newly diagnosed patients rising to over 80% in advanced cancer patients, and is the most common serious symptom. Pancreas cancer pain is strongly correlated with worsened survival, and relief of pain is correlated with better survival. Pancreas cancer pain is
CIPN is a common side effect of many chemotherapeutic agents and often results in dose limitation, switch to less efficacious agents or even therapy discontinuation. CIPN mainly affects sensory nerves, while motor or autonomic nerve injury is rare. Therefore, most patients with CIPN experience
Main objective:
it is, in cancer patients chronically treated with oxaliplatin (over 5 courses) and exhibiting signs of neuropathy, to correlate the quantitative changes in the thermal sensitivity to hot and cold (Thermotest, Quantitative Sensory Testing QST ) with any changes in the ion conductance
Participants and settings:
- Patients with lung, breast, head & neck, colorectal or gynaecological cancer receiving taxanes or platinum-derivative chemotherapy experiencing CIPN after the end of cycle one will be the population of the study. The study will take place in a large cancer centre in the
There is a significant disconnect between the escalating healthcare problem of opioid use for chronic pain, and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. A plausible strategy is to interrupt the vicious cycle of pain, inflammation and hyperesthesia is using highly efficacious non-opioid drugs
Pediatric neuropathic pain are infrequent. It's difficult to estimate the prevalence. It may result from several causes : infectious (post-herpetic neuropathy), traumatic (tumor or Positional)or toxic (chemotherapy or radiotherapy). They are often associated with malignant pediatric disease.
These
Diabetes mellitus type 1 is a chronic disease in which the pancreas no longer produces enough insulin and the glucose in the blood cannot be absorbed into the cells of the body. The main symptom is hyperglycemia. After 10 to 15 years of disease long-term vascular complications including retinopathy,