Treatment of breakthrough pain in oncological patients

Abstract

Article on breakthrough pain focuses on repetition of basic concepts of breakthrough pain, particularly its diagnosis and effective treatment. The following are recent studies that have been published and bring new facts about the treatment of breakthrough pain.

Finally the article are summarise the comparison of the basic pharmacokinetics of opioids morphine and fentanyl.

Keywords

• breakthrough pain
• oncological pain
• transmucosal application of fentanyl