Pain Management in Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Marin Golčić, Tomi Kovačević, Amir Radfar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 0 5 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 0 5 1 - 6
Pain Management in Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer provides healthcare professionals with holistic guidelines and whole-patient treatment philosophies that help practi… Read more
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Request a sales quotePain Management in Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer provides healthcare professionals with holistic guidelines and whole-patient treatment philosophies that help practitioners address a patient's total needs. It is the only all-in-one resource for when the cancer patient and palliative care patient are one and the same. While other books focus on analgesics, this resource updates on how early palliative pain treatment can often be achieved by palliative chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or other methods. The myth that palliative care is only appropriate in late-stage illness persists not only among laypersons, but amongst many doctors as well.
This book provides insights into what are commonly treated as unrelated disciplines, when in fact cancer care and palliative care have much to teach each other when it comes to oncology patients.
This book provides insights into what are commonly treated as unrelated disciplines, when in fact cancer care and palliative care have much to teach each other when it comes to oncology patients.
- Presents advances in the pain management of cancer patients in palliative care
- Gives an outlook through the unique prism of both oncologists and palliative care specialists
- Emphasizes the importance of managing both patients' cancer ailments as well as their palliative requirements
Oncologists interested in pain management, as we cover the specifics of pain treatment of different cancers (which is not the strongest skill of all oncologists); palliative care specialists who might not know the nuances of each cancer and the potential of pain treatment in special circumstances; and medical students due to the lack of books that cover palliative cancer care the through the eyes of both types specialists at once
PART I: Introduction
1. A New Era in Cancer Treatment: what has changed
2. The difference between early and late palliative care
3. The concept of total pain in palliative care
4. Pain assessment in palliative care
PART II: Pharmacological treatment of pain
5. Opioids and non-opioids in pain treatment
6. Adjuvant and new analgesics
7. The use of chemotherapy as pain treatment
8. Managing side-effects of analgesics
PART III: Interventional treatment of pain
9. Radiotherapy and brachytherapy
10. Nuclear medicine in pain treatment
11. Surgical interventions in pain treatment
12. Physical therapy in pain treatment
13. Other interventions in pain treatment
PART IV: Complementary therapies in pain management
14. Treating spiritual and psychological aspects of pain
15. Treating anxiety, dyspnea, and other conditions associated with painful stimuli
16. Virtual reality and music therapy in pain management
17. Nutrition and pain
PART V: Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
18. Head and neck and upper GI cancers
19. Lower gastrointestinal cancers
20. Hepatobiliary cancers
21. Lung and intrathoracic cancers
22. Breast cancers
23. Gynecological and urologic cancers
24. Mesenchymal cancers
25. Treating pain after cancer treatment
PART VI. Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
26. Treating pain in the End-of-Life Care
27. Treating pain in Liver and Renal Insufficiency
28. Treating pain in Children and Very Old Patients
29. Ethical dilemmas in pain management
PART VII. Future of pain treatment in palliative care
30. Future avenues in pain management
31. Implementation of guidelines in pain treatment
32. Coping with pain in patients’ families and medical staff
Opioid Conversion Charts
Practical Examples
1. A New Era in Cancer Treatment: what has changed
2. The difference between early and late palliative care
3. The concept of total pain in palliative care
4. Pain assessment in palliative care
PART II: Pharmacological treatment of pain
5. Opioids and non-opioids in pain treatment
6. Adjuvant and new analgesics
7. The use of chemotherapy as pain treatment
8. Managing side-effects of analgesics
PART III: Interventional treatment of pain
9. Radiotherapy and brachytherapy
10. Nuclear medicine in pain treatment
11. Surgical interventions in pain treatment
12. Physical therapy in pain treatment
13. Other interventions in pain treatment
PART IV: Complementary therapies in pain management
14. Treating spiritual and psychological aspects of pain
15. Treating anxiety, dyspnea, and other conditions associated with painful stimuli
16. Virtual reality and music therapy in pain management
17. Nutrition and pain
PART V: Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
18. Head and neck and upper GI cancers
19. Lower gastrointestinal cancers
20. Hepatobiliary cancers
21. Lung and intrathoracic cancers
22. Breast cancers
23. Gynecological and urologic cancers
24. Mesenchymal cancers
25. Treating pain after cancer treatment
PART VI. Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations
26. Treating pain in the End-of-Life Care
27. Treating pain in Liver and Renal Insufficiency
28. Treating pain in Children and Very Old Patients
29. Ethical dilemmas in pain management
PART VII. Future of pain treatment in palliative care
30. Future avenues in pain management
31. Implementation of guidelines in pain treatment
32. Coping with pain in patients’ families and medical staff
Opioid Conversion Charts
Practical Examples
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2025
- No. of pages (Paperback): 300
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443300509
- eBook ISBN: 9780443300516
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Marin Golčić
Dr. Marin Golčić is a Medical Oncologist consultant currently associated with University Medical Hospital and Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, Croatia where he is providing oncology education on several different courses. He also has with working experience in the first Croatian Hospice, where he obtained his PhD in 2019, published several high-impact palliative care manuscripts and is currently serving as a Chairperson of the Pharmacotherapy Committee. Dr Golčić has taken part in several ESMO and ASCO Programmes and received a ESMO Palliative Care Fellowship in 2017 leading to a programme in The Royal Marsden, UK. He published 19 peer-reviewed scientific papers, serves as a scientific reviewer for various journals including BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care and American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr Golcic also wrote a book chapter on Palliative and Hospice are in the Republic of Croatia (Silbermann et al, Springer 2021).
Affiliations and expertise
University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, CroatiaTK
Tomi Kovačević
Dr Tomi Kovacsevity is a Palliative Medicine Specialist, the first one in Serbia since 2017, who is supporting patients with a cancer diagnosis through supportive and palliative care and attending supplemental education in the field of oncology. He currently works at the Institute for pulmonary diseases of Vojvodina in Serbia, and is associated with Faculty of Medicine in University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He holds a PhD in Medical Science and recently completed an EUPCA leadership in Palliative Care (EQF 7). He also serves on an Expert Committee for Palliative Care in Ministry of Health in the Republic of Serbia as well as a consultat on European Training Academy EUTA in Belgrade, Serbia. Dr Kovačević is educated in Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Leadership, Applied Engineering in Health Management, and is involved in International Projects, giving him a unique insight into real-world data and practice in pain treatment.
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, SerbiaAR
Amir Radfar
Professor Amir Radfar is an assistant professor in Medical Education in University of Central Florida, with Postgraduate education both in Oncology (Harvard Medical School, USA) and Palliative Care (EUPCA Leadership Course, Germany), which makes him an ideal editor for a book on both topics. Professor Radfar is working as a Director of Research Services in Avicenna Medical and Clinical Research Institute and is a co-author and collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease Study (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA). He functions also as an institutional representative at International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care and is a board member of MEDICHEM. His editorial activities include serving as an academic editor for PLOS ONE, the Journal of Oncology and the Journal of Environmental and Publlic Health.
Affiliations and expertise
A.T. Still University, USA