Eur J Gynaecol Oncol
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In pre-terminal and terminal gynaecological patients with persistent cancer pain, now it is possible to carry out some anthalgic methods associated or not to parenteral administration of non-narcotic or narcotic analgesic, i.e. intrathecal neurolytic injections and epidural narcotic administration. Many favourable results have been obtained by means of single or repeated 7% phenol in glycerine injections to patients with advanced but not terminal cancer affected by somatic and segmental pain or by perineal pain. ⋯ This method appears to be the best answer to many problems complained by the patients: pain, depression, malaise. As a matter of fact, low doses of epidural morphine induce both complete pain relief and sedation or slight drowsiness.