... guidelines endorse the view that these patients should be considered for procedural, or so-called interventional, pain therapies. Generally accepted indications for interventional pain therapies include (a) uncontrolled pain despite systemic analgesics and (b) unacceptable systemic analgesic adverse effects...

..., pharmacotherapies and interventional pain therapies have become entwined in relieving oncologic pain. This textbook focuses on oncologic pain interventional treatments that are available today. Algorithms are presented indicating recommendations for deciding which treatments to choose during a cancer patients pain...