Cancer Pain Management

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue
damage or described in terms of such damage. In other words, pain is a somatopsychic
phenomenon”. Pain is a complex physiological and emotional experience and not a simple sensation.
The most comprehensive review of the evidence base of palliative medicine pain management is to
be found in the Scottish Intercollegiate National Guidelines, Pain in one or more sites occurs in 80%
of patients with advanced cancer. It is important to assess each specific pain and to identify the
causes