Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management
Opioids comprise an important group of drugs used in cancer pain pharmacotherapy. In recent years, more and more studies have emerged indicating the potentially immunosuppressive effects of opioid analgesics and their serious consequences, including the risk of cancer progression. The identification...
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| description | Opioids comprise an important group of drugs used in cancer pain pharmacotherapy. In recent years, more and more studies have emerged indicating the potentially immunosuppressive effects of opioid analgesics and their serious consequences, including the risk of cancer progression. The identification of these risks has prompted a search for other effective, and most importantly, safer methods of perioperative analgesic management. Regional analgesia techniques, which allow for a significant reduction in opioid dosing and thus diminish the risk of immunosuppression associated with these drugs, seem to offer substantial hope in this respect. A number of studies available in the literature assess the effects of regional analgesia techniques on cancer progression; however, it is often difficult to interpret their results owing to several perioperative factors (such as surgical trauma, inadequate pain and stress relief, and hypothermia) which are also attributed immunosuppressive effects and tend to be implicated in increased risk of cancer progression. Further research is needed to verify the available data on both the potential adverse effects of opioids and the possible protective effects of regional analgesia techniques on cancer patients. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0885aaae21144fd2a1e75bef98049a3d2025-08-20T03:17:04ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67651918-15232018-01-01201810.1155/2018/92937049293704Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain ManagementRenata Zajączkowska0Wojciech Leppert1Joanna Mika2Magdalena Kocot-Kępska3Jarosław Woroń4Anna Wrzosek5Jerzy Wordliczek6Department of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, PolandDepartment of Pain Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Pain Research and Treatment, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandDepartment of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, PolandOpioids comprise an important group of drugs used in cancer pain pharmacotherapy. In recent years, more and more studies have emerged indicating the potentially immunosuppressive effects of opioid analgesics and their serious consequences, including the risk of cancer progression. The identification of these risks has prompted a search for other effective, and most importantly, safer methods of perioperative analgesic management. Regional analgesia techniques, which allow for a significant reduction in opioid dosing and thus diminish the risk of immunosuppression associated with these drugs, seem to offer substantial hope in this respect. A number of studies available in the literature assess the effects of regional analgesia techniques on cancer progression; however, it is often difficult to interpret their results owing to several perioperative factors (such as surgical trauma, inadequate pain and stress relief, and hypothermia) which are also attributed immunosuppressive effects and tend to be implicated in increased risk of cancer progression. Further research is needed to verify the available data on both the potential adverse effects of opioids and the possible protective effects of regional analgesia techniques on cancer patients.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9293704 |
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| title | Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management |
| title_full | Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management |
| title_fullStr | Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management |
| title_short | Perioperative Immunosuppression and Risk of Cancer Progression: The Impact of Opioids on Pain Management |
| title_sort | perioperative immunosuppression and risk of cancer progression the impact of opioids on pain management |
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