Many cancer patients suffer from intractable pain in their late stage because of extensive local cancer infiltration.
These patients may be helped greatly either by medication of various analgesics or by nerve block.
The analgesics include antipyretic analgesics, anti-inflammatory analgesics, combined analgesics and narcotics.
In some cases other drugs such as sedatives, tranquilizers, anti-convulsive and hormonal agents may help to alleviate the cancer pains.
The authors described 2 cases of cancer of the epipharynx in whom pain was successfully controlled, one by antidepressants used together with various analgesics and the other case by use of steroids, and also a third case in whom severe pain associated with cancer of the external auditory canal had been significantly eased by administration of a large dose of pentazine.
Successful control of the severe pain caused by a widely infiltrated cancer can only be accomplished by unstinted effort of the doctor in finding the most appropriate agent for each patient based on a good patient-doctor relation.
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