Cancer nursing
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Neuropathic pain is present in at least 25-40% of people with cancer pain and is thought to be more difficult to control than other types of cancer related pain. ⋯ These results highlight the ongoing need for research evaluating methods of treating neuropathic pain; education regarding assessment and management of neuropathic pain; and aggressive efforts to relieve neuropathic pain in oncology settings.
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When cancer patients at the end of life stay at home, family caregivers are often directly implicated in the care. One challenge is pain management. They are often unprepared and unsupported as they attempt to meet this responsibility. There are few studies that examine what this responsibility entails. ⋯ Understanding that family caregivers are continuously engaging in specific processes as they prepare for and implement pain management strategies can help health care providers tailor their interventions to specific parts of the complex process of family caregiver management of palliative care cancer patients' pain.