Cancer-related Breakthrough Pain

Dr Andrew Davies is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine from the United Kingdom. He has a long-standing clinical / research interest in breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP). He was the chair of the working group that produced the APM recommendations on BTcP, contributed to the EONS guidelines on BTcP, and has written numerous peer reviewed journal articles on the subject. He is current President of the APM, and is President-Elect of the MASCC.

The author does an excellent job of providing a brief overview of the recent research in the field of cancer-related breakthrough pain. The book is organized into chapters that present clinical data in easy-to-understand graphs and tables. This pocket-sized book is an excellent quick reference for anyone caring for patients with cancer-related breakthrough pain.

• 1: Introduction 2: Clinical features 3: Assessment 4: General principles of management 5: Oral and parenteral opioids 6: Oral transmucosal opioids 7: Intranasal and intrapulmonary opioids 8: Non-opioid analgesics 9: Other therapeutic interventions