MOVANT Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy (REVAKI), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Pain in Motion International Research Group (PiM), Wilrijk, Belgium.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2024 Feb;307(2):243-247. doi: 10.1002/ar.25309. Epub 2023 Aug 28.
The high prevalence and the debilitating nature of pain following cancer urge the need for appropriate pain assessment and management in this population. Yet cancer pain remains under-recognized and under-treated. For effective pain management, correct identification of the presence of different underlying pain mechanisms is warranted, since pain management strategies differ considerably according to the predominant mechanisms. To raise awareness around possible underlying pain mechanisms in pain after cancer, the three major pain mechanisms are shortly explained and translated to this specific population. Next, in this Special Issue, we delve further into the existing evidence on the presence of these pain mechanisms in patients with pain after cancer, and on how they can be assessed or approached in patients with pain after cancer.
癌症相关疼痛的高患病率和致残性促使我们需要对该人群进行适当的疼痛评估和管理。然而，癌症疼痛仍然存在认识不足和治疗不足的情况。为了进行有效的疼痛管理，需要正确识别不同潜在疼痛机制的存在，因为疼痛管理策略根据主要机制而有很大差异。为了提高对癌症后疼痛中可能存在的潜在疼痛机制的认识，简要解释了三种主要的疼痛机制，并将其转化为针对该特定人群的内容。接下来，在本特刊中，我们进一步探讨了这些疼痛机制在癌症后疼痛患者中的存在证据，以及如何在癌症后疼痛患者中评估或处理这些机制。
