Pain in cancer survivors course for Nurses
This session describes the interventions that are available to treat cancer and which are associated with the development of persistent pain in cancer survivors.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- List the common reasons why patients who survive cancer experience persistent pain
- Identify the underlying mechanisms causing this pain
- Recognize the risk factors for persistent pain
- Identify the criteria for categorizing and detecting persistent pain
- List the measures that can be taken to prevent persistent pain
- Describe how persistent pain can be treated
As improvements occur in the way in which cancer is detected and treated, so the number of patients surviving cancer increases. It is predicted that by the year 2020, there will be 3 million cancer survivors living in the United Kingdom. Many of the patients who survive cancer are affected by both the disease itself and the treatments they have received for their disease.
Matthew is the Pain Research Fellow at the Royal Marsden Hospital London and is undertaking a doctorate in medicine under the auspices of the Institute of Cancer Research.
Matthew graduated with distinction from Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’s Medical School and was president of the university rugby club. He has a long-term interest in pain research having completed an academic clinical fellowship at Imperial College, London.
Matthew’s main areas of interest are painful small fibre neuropathies, the use of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in painful conditions and pain in cancer survivors.
Away from medicine he enjoys rugby, collecting wine and gardening.
Matthew is a content author with the e-PAIN project.
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