Tratamiento del dolor oncológico en el anciano
- Sancho, José Félix
- Sancho, Azahara
- Cavallo, Loreto
- Cruzado Rodríguez, Juan Antonio
- Fernández, Ana
- Pérez Manga, Gumersindo
ISSN: 1696-7240
Year of publication: 2006
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
Pages: 153-162
Type: Article
More publications in: Psicooncología: investigación y clínica biopsicosocial en oncología
Abstract
The treatment of the cancer pain in the elderly patient presents several special characteristics due to their fragile homeostasis. Nevertheless, it is essential to know how to realize it in order to avoid the side effects that treatment can cause. It is studied the epidemiology, the effects of the age on the drug outcomes, pain assessment in the elder and their personalized pharmacological treatments, these knowledges are necessary to treat the elderly pain, usually so near to death.