Catalog

Chronic neuropathic cancer pain

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Link to WHO Definition

Chronic neuropathic cancer pain – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1480100314

Chronic neuropathic cancer pain is chronic pain due to a primary tumour or metastases damaging or injuring the peripheral or central nervous system. The pain may be spontaneous or evoked, as an increased response to a painful stimulus (hyperalgesia) or a painful response to a normally nonpainful stimulus (allodynia). The diagnosis of chronic neuropathic cancer pain requires a history of tumour or metastases that damage or injure the nervous system, and a neuroanatomically plausible distribution of the pain. Negative (for example, decreased or loss of sensation) and positive sensory symptoms or signs (for example, allodynia or hyperalgesia) indicating the involvement of the somatosensory nervous system must be compatible with the innervation territory of the affected nervous structure.