Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Cancer Pain

Follow the links below to find systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for cancer pain relief and pain management.

Created July 2009

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Title:   Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) for cancer pain in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer-related pain is complex and multidimensional but is mostly managed using drug therapy. There is increasing recognition of the need for non-drug approaches and TENS may have a significant role to play. Only two studies met eligibility criteria for...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Oral morphine for cancer pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Morphine taken by mouth is an effective pain-killer for cancer pain. Pain is commonly experienced by people with cancer, and morphine is considered the gold standard for relieving pain when it becomes moderate to severe. This review aimed to assess the ...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Methadone for cancer pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pain is a common and debilitating symptom of cancer. Methadone is an opioid drug used to treat cancer pain, and can be given by mouth as liquid, tablet or capsule, via the rectum as a suppository, or injected into the vein, muscle or under the skin. Thi...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Ketamine as an adjuvant to opioids for cancer pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The benefits and harms of adding ketamine to strong pain-killers such as morphine for the relief of cancer pain are not yet established. Morphine-like drugs (opioids) are frequently prescribed for moderate and severe cancer pain, but in some cases these...
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Bisphosphonates for breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When breast cancer has spread to the bones (bone metastases ), bisphosphonate drugs (added to anti-cancer treatment for breast cancer) can reduce pain, fractures and other bone problems. Women and men with advanced breast cancer commonly develop bone me...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Calcitonin for metastatic bone pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People who have cancer which has spread to their bones and the nerves adjacent to the bones often suffer severe pain. There are several treatments to help relieve this pain: radiotherapy; analgesic (pain relieving) drugs such as opioids; and bone modula...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Opioids for the management of breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC) is an opioid and is effective in the management of breakthrough pain. Breakthrough pain is a common and debilitating component of pain in patients with cancer. Clinical trial evidence was sought to determine the...
Date:   Nov 2005
Title:   Opioid switching to improve pain relief and drug tolerability
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Opioid switching is the term given to the clinical practice of substituting one strong opioid with another, in an attempt to achieve a better balance between pain relief and side effects. This is an established clinical practice for patients with cancer...
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Radioisotopes for metastatic bone pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pain is commonly experienced by people whose cancer has spread to their bones. There are several ways to treat this pain, including the administration of radioactive drugs that act on the bone to reduce the effects of the cancer. This review looked at t...
Date:   Aug 2003
Title:   Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bisphosphonate drugs reduce pain and bone fractures in people with multiple myeloma, with clodronate and pamidronate helping most Multiple myeloma is cancer of the bone marrow. It causes bone destruction that leads to pain, spinal cord compression and f...
Date:   May 2002
Title:   Bisphosphonates for the relief of pain secondary to bone metastases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bisphosphonates give some relief from pain caused by cancer that has invaded bones. Patients with cancer that has spread to the bone frequently have pain. Pain control is an important part of cancer management. Bisphosphonates are medicines that affect ...
Date:   Feb 2002
Title:   Palliation of metastatic bone pain: single fraction versus multifraction radiotherapy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The spread of tumour to the bone (metastasis) is a common characteristic of many malignancies including cancers of the prostate, breast and lung. This may be associated with pain, compression of the spinal cord and the potential for bone fracture. Radio...
Date:   Sep 2001
Title:   Radiotherapy for the palliation of painful bone metastases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Secondary cancer tumours (metastases) located in bone tissue can cause high levels of pain and distress in patients with terminal cancer. Radiotherapy is used commonly to provide pain relief, however, the precise effectiveness of radiotherapy may be unc...
Date:   May 1999
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