Conventional cancer treatment alone or with regional hyperthermia for pain relief in lung cancer: A case–control study. Issue 3 (June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, Yeon-Pyo; Choi, Yuri; Kim, Sun; Park, Yoon-Sung; Oh, In-Jae; Kim, Kyu-Sik; Kim, Young-Chul
• Is Part Of: Complementary therapies in medicine. Volume 23:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 381
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2015-06
• Subjects: Alternative medicine -- Periodicals; Complementary Therapies -- Periodicals; Médecines parallèles -- Périodiques; Thérapeutique -- Périodiques; Alternative medicine; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 615.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2015.04.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0965-2299

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">Adding hyperthermia treatment alter cancer-related pain.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">We matched the hyperthermia group and the conventional treatment group at a propensity score matching ratio of 1:5.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">We examined changes in effective analgesic scores over six months.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">Cancer-related pain was increased by hyperthermia, particularly during the early treatment period.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>