PART I: Introduction 1. A New Era in Cancer Treatment: what has changed 2. The difference between early and late palliative care 3. The concept of total pain in palliative care 4. Pain assessment in palliative care PART II: Pharmacological treatment of pain 5. Opioids and non-opioids in pain treatment 6. Adjuvant and new analgesics 7. The use of chemotherapy as pain treatment 8.

Managing side-effects of analgesics PART III: Interventional treatment of pain 9. Radiotherapy and brachytherapy 10. Nuclear medicine in pain treatment 11. Surgical interventions in pain treatment 12. Physical therapy in pain treatment 13. Other interventions in pain treatment PART IV: Complementary therapies in pain management 14. Treating spiritual and psychological aspects of pain 15. Treating anxiety, dyspnea, and other conditions associated with painful stimuli 16.

Virtual reality and music therapy in pain management 17. Nutrition and pain PART V: Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations 18. Head and neck and upper GI cancers 19. Lower gastrointestinal cancers 20. Hepatobiliary cancers 21. Lung and intrathoracic cancers 22. Breast cancers 23. Gynecological and urologic cancers 24.

Mesenchymal cancers 25. Treating pain after cancer treatment PART VI. Specifics of treating pain in special palliative care situations 26. Treating pain in the End-of-Life Care 27. Treating pain in Liver and Renal Insufficiency 28. Treating pain in Children and Very Old Patients 29. Ethical dilemmas in pain management PART VII. Future of pain treatment in palliative care 30.

Future avenues in pain management 31. Implementation of guidelines in pain treatment 32. Coping with pain in patients' families and medical staff Opioid Conversion Charts Practical Examples.