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Opioids in Cancer Pain (2 ed.)

Edited by Mellar P. Davis, Paul A. Glare, Janet Hardy, and Columba Quigley

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This new edition of this comprehensive resource brings together a wealth of experience from those involved in all aspects of opioids, helping clinicians who handle the complex pain problems of cancer patients to incorporate the insight of basic scientists and pharmacologists with a view to improving both clinician understanding and patient care.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: May 2009

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199236640

Published online:: May 2013

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199236640.001.0001

Authors

Mellar P. Davis, editor Director of Research, Harry R. Horvitz Center of Palliative Medicine, Taussig Cancer Center, Division of Solid Tumor, Cleveland Clinic, USA

Paul A. Glare, editor Chief, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Janet Hardy, editor Director of Palliative Care, Mater Health Services, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Columba Quigley, editor Formerly Consultant/Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust, London, UK

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Front Matter
- Preface to the second edition
- Contributors
- List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Opioid receptors and opioid pharmacodynamics Mellar P. Davis and Gavril W. Pasternak
Chapter 2 Opioid pharmacokinetics Kenneth C. Jackson II, Mellar P. Davis, and Columba Quigley
Chapter 3 Liver disease and exogenous opioid pharmacokinetics Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 4 Opioids in renal failure Janet R. Hardy
Chapter 5 Codeine Janet R. Hardy and Kenneth C. Jackson II
Chapter 6 Hydrocodone Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 7 Tramadol Mellar P. Davis and Paul Glare
Chapter 8 Dextropropoxyphene Paul Glare
Chapter 9 Morphine Paul Glare
Chapter 10 Oxycodone Paul Glare and Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 11 The lipophilic opioids: fentanyl, alfentanil, sufentanil, and remifentanil Anthony Hall and Janet R. Hardy
Chapter 12 Buprenorphine Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 13 Methadone Mellar P. Davis and Columba Quigley
Chapter 14 Hydromorphone Columba Quigley and Paul Glare
Chapter 15 Levorphanol Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 16 Diamorphine Janet R. Hardy and Columba Quigley
Chapter 17 Oxymorphone Paul Glare
Chapter 18 Choice of opioids and the WHO ladder Paul Glare
Chapter 19 Pharmacogenetics and opioids Joy R. Ross and Columba Quigley
Chapter 20 Opioid rotation Janet R. Hardy, Columba Quigley, and Joy R. Ross
Chapter 21 Equi-analgesia Mellar P. Davis and Kenneth C. Jackson II
Chapter 22 Dosing strategies for acute pain Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 23 Opioid dosing strategies for chronic pain and the management of opioid side effects Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 24 Patient-controlled analgesia Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 25 Spinal opioids in cancer pain Costantino Benedetti, Steven Paquelet, and Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 26 Opioid poorly responsive pain, physical dependence, tolerance, and opioid-induced hyperalgesia Mellar P. Davis
Chapter 27 Opioids in special populations: developing countries Mhoira Leng
Chapter 28 Opioids in special populations: paediatric population Ross Drake
Chapter 29 Opioids in the terminal phase Janet R. Hardy
Chapter 30 Cancer pain and substance abuse Kenneth L. Kirsh, Tatiana D. Starr, Lauren J. Rogak, and Steven D. Passik
End Matter
- Index

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