When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: long acting painkillers for cancer

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cancer pain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_pain

    Chronic pain may be continuous with occasional sharp rises in intensity (flares), or intermittent: periods of painlessness interspersed with periods of pain. Despite pain being well controlled by long-acting drugs or other treatment, flares may occasionally be felt; this is called breakthrough pain, and is treated with quick-acting analgesics. [10]

  3. Pain ladder - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_ladder

    "Pain ladder", or analgesic ladder, was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a guideline for the use of drugs in the management of pain. Originally published in 1986 for the management of cancer pain, it is now widely used by medical professionals for the management of all types of pain.

  4. Fentanyl - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

    Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic.It is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; [11] its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries.

  5. Pain management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_management

    Opioid medications can provide short, intermediate or long acting analgesia depending upon the specific properties of the medication and whether it is formulated as an extended release drug. Opioid medications may be administered orally, by injection, via nasal mucosa or oral mucosa, rectally, transdermally, intravenously, epidurally and ...

  6. What alcohol does to your brain and body, according to the ...

    www.aol.com/alcohol-does-brain-body-according...

    Alcohol can increase your risk of cancer, but it can also prevent some heart attacks. ... there's a release of beta-endorphins, our natural painkillers, for both physical and emotional woes. The ...

  7. Timeline of the opioid epidemic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_opioid...

    2015 An article in the Annual Review of Public Health, reported that, "Between 1996 and 2002, Purdue Pharma funded more than 20,000 pain-related educational programs through direct sponsorship or financial grants and launched a multifaceted campaign to encourage long-term use of [opioid painkillers] for chronic non-cancer pain. As part of this ...