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Total pain in a patient with lung cancer diagnosis
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Affiliations- Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Abstract
Pain is experienced by most cancer patients. According to the definition of the International Society for
the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling
that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage. This very “medical” definition indicates
that pain is a mental, subjective, sensual, emotional, and unpleasant phenomenon. In palliative care, there
is often a need for a better and deeper understanding of what “total” pain can be. The case of a young
patient with lung cancer diagnosis presented an opportunity to describe characteristics of such pain, which
encompasses physical, mental, social and spiritual suffering.
Abstract
Pain is experienced by most cancer patients. According to the definition of the International Society for
the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling
that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage. This very “medical” definition indicates
that pain is a mental, subjective, sensual, emotional, and unpleasant phenomenon. In palliative care, there
is often a need for a better and deeper understanding of what “total” pain can be. The case of a young
patient with lung cancer diagnosis presented an opportunity to describe characteristics of such pain, which
encompasses physical, mental, social and spiritual suffering.
Keywords
total pain, clinical communication, lung cancer
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Total pain in a patient with lung cancer diagnosis
Journal
Palliative Medicine in Practice
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Case report
Pages
219-222
Published online
2020-08-20
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Palliat Med Pract 2020;14(3):219-222.
Keywords
total pain
clinical communication
lung cancer
Authors
Agnieszka Nowakowska-Arendt
Michał Graczyk
Hanna Gęsińska
Małgorzata Krajnik
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