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Pain Control and Palliative Treatments

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Multimodal Treatment of Recurrent Pelvic Colorectal Cancer

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In pelvic diseases, pain is a common and debilitating symptom with variable etiology. It can occur suddenly, sharply, and briefly (acute pelvic pain) or over the long term (chronic pelvic pain). Chronic pelvic pain refers to any constant or intermittent pelvic pain and is defined in a variety of ways. The most commonly used definitions consider both pain location and duration. In 1994, Campbell and Collett [1] defined it as “recurrent or constant pain in the lower abdominal region that has lasted for at least six months”. A similar definition was proposed by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: “non-cyclic pain of six or more months’ duration that localizes to the anatomic pelvis, anterior abdominal wall at or below the umbilicus, the lumbosacral back, or the buttocks, and is of sufficient severity to cause functional disability or lead to medical care” [2].

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Cascella, M., Bifulco, F., Di Caprio, B., Cuomo, A. (2016). Pain Control and Palliative Treatments. In: Romano, G.M. (eds) Multimodal Treatment of Recurrent Pelvic Colorectal Cancer. Updates in Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5767-8_13

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