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Cancer pain
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Pain related to a variety of causes as a result of cancer and/or the metastasis of cancer.
(severe pain) |
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Central pain
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Pain resulting from any disorder that causes central nervous system (CNS)damage.
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Neuropathic pain
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Pain that results from a disturbance of function or pathologic change in a nerve.
Ex: Shingles |
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NSAIDs
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A large, chemically diverse group of drugs that are analgesics and also possess antiinflammatory and antipyretic activity but are not steroids.
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Opioid analgesics
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Synthetic narcotic agents that bind to the mu, kappa, and delta receptors to relieve pain but are not themselves derived from the opium plant.
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Pain
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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain is a subjective and individual experience; it can be defined as whatever the experiencing person says it is and it exists whenever he or she says it does.
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Phantom pain
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Pain experienced in a body part that has been surgically or traumatically removed.
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Psychogenic pain
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Pain that is psychologic in nature but is truly real pain in terms of actual pain impulses that travel through nerve cells.
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Referred pain
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Pain occurring in an area away from the organ of origin.
Ex: heart attack-arm or jaw pain. |
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Vascular pain
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Pain that results from a pathology of the vascular or perivascular tissues.
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