Pain and Palliative Care in Patients with Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 1455
Special Issue Editors
Interests: capsaicin (vanilloid) receptor TRPV1; "thermoTRP" expression in cancer; TRP channels as oncotargets; TRP chan-nels as tumor suppressors; sensory nerve–tumor interactions; oncothermia
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Interests: support cancer therapy and palliative care in adults, including lymphedema due to breast cancer, predicting metastatic patient prognosis score, atherosclerosis, pain management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A significant proportion of cancer patients are experiencing difficulties in receiving pain relief and palliative care. The recognition of chronic pain is incomplete, even though it is one of the most severe forms of pain, and the main treatment for chronic pain is major opioids (I.A. evidence). Unfortunately, most patients quickly develop tolerance to opioids, leaving them with few therapeutic alternatives while they struggle with this deadly disease. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize and treat the patient as soon as possible, and to urgently identify the molecular mechanisms that trigger cancer pain so that new analgesic drugs can be developed. Most cancer pain occurs when the tumor destroys tissue or presses on nerves. However, cancer cells can also produce substances that make normally harmless stimuli painful. Furthermore, therapeutic interventions can cause pain as a side effect, as exemplified by chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
With this Special Issue, we aim to present the expansion of palliative care, exploring the current state of the field of cancer pain, from basic research to drug discovery and development to clinical trials. Original research articles, reviews, clinical studies, and meta-analyses of clinical trials are all welcome, and we also welcome presentations of new directions and opportunities in palliative care.
Dr. Arpad Szallasi
Dr. Anna Horváth
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer pain
- palliative care
- opioid tolerance
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