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Pain medicine Terapia 2021, 7 ( 402 ) :  22  -  33

The management of pain in elderly cancer patients

Summary: The aim of the manuscript is to present the multimodal ap-proach of pain management in the population of elderly cancer patients. Basic rules of clinical assessment of patients suff ering from pain, pharmacotherapy and most important non-pharma-cological methods of pain treatment in the elderly cancer pa-tients have been introduced.
Keywords: pain in elderly, cancer, non-opioid drugs, opioids, co-analgesics, non-pharmacological methods

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