Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study
Pain is common among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). However, there are very limited data on chronic pain among HNC patients treated with radiation therapy (XRT). In this retrospective study, we focused on the characteristics of chronic post-XRT pain in such patients. Post-XRT pain is comm...
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| author | Anusha Kallurkar Shreedhar Kulkarni Kristin Delfino Daniel Ferraro Krishna Rao |
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| description | Pain is common among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). However, there are very limited data on chronic pain among HNC patients treated with radiation therapy (XRT). In this retrospective study, we focused on the characteristics of chronic post-XRT pain in such patients. Post-XRT pain is common among HNC patients; however, we found discrepancy between frequency of treatment and frequency of chronic pain, suggesting poor documentation of pain in the medical records. Among patients who reported to have chronic post-XRT pain, most of them described having severe pain and used descriptors of neuropathic pain. Pharynx was the commonest site of cancer as well as the commonest site of cancer-related chronic pain; squamous cell carcinoma was the most frequent histological pattern, and opioids were used most often to treat such chronic pain. There was a significant association between chronic pain and number of sites of pain, and chronic pain was also associated with use of opioids. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-823a6817cace4351ab7d454d3f51118c2025-08-20T03:35:27ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67651918-15232019-01-01201910.1155/2019/96756549675654Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective StudyAnusha Kallurkar0Shreedhar Kulkarni1Kristin Delfino2Daniel Ferraro3Krishna Rao4Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USADivision of Medicine/Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USADepartment of Surgery, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USAUniversity Radiologists, Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, IL, USADivision of Hematology/Oncology, Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USAPain is common among patients with head and neck cancer (HNC). However, there are very limited data on chronic pain among HNC patients treated with radiation therapy (XRT). In this retrospective study, we focused on the characteristics of chronic post-XRT pain in such patients. Post-XRT pain is common among HNC patients; however, we found discrepancy between frequency of treatment and frequency of chronic pain, suggesting poor documentation of pain in the medical records. Among patients who reported to have chronic post-XRT pain, most of them described having severe pain and used descriptors of neuropathic pain. Pharynx was the commonest site of cancer as well as the commonest site of cancer-related chronic pain; squamous cell carcinoma was the most frequent histological pattern, and opioids were used most often to treat such chronic pain. There was a significant association between chronic pain and number of sites of pain, and chronic pain was also associated with use of opioids.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9675654 |
| spellingShingle | Anusha Kallurkar Shreedhar Kulkarni Kristin Delfino Daniel Ferraro Krishna Rao Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study Pain Research and Management |
| title | Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study |
| title_full | Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study |
| title_fullStr | Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study |
| title_short | Characteristics of Chronic Pain among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Radiation Therapy: A Retrospective Study |
| title_sort | characteristics of chronic pain among head and neck cancer patients treated with radiation therapy a retrospective study |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9675654 |
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