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Principles of Treatment

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Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in the United States. Often associated with malignancies, chronic pain has become an indistinguishable component of cancer. Pain management interventions are available to treat cancer pain effectively. Multidisciplinary treatment is necessary with teams of oncologists, pain physicians, and psychiatrists working together to identify cancer states with intractable pain in need of complex interventions.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Hassan Aboumerhi & Magdalena Anitescu

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Aboumerhi, H., Anitescu, M. (2019). Principles of Treatment. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_201

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