| Literature DB >> 15336334 |
Janet M Edrington1, Steven Paul, Marylin Dodd, Claudia West, Noreen Facione, Debu Tripathy, Peter Koo, Karen Schumacher, Christine Miaskowski.
Abstract
While chronic pain is experienced by approximately 50-90% of patients with metastatic cancer, little is known about sex differences in chronic cancer pain. Therefore, the purposes of this study, in a sample of oncology outpatients (n=187) who were experiencing pain from bone metastasis, were: 1) to determine if there were sex differences in various pain characteristics, including pain intensity, and 2) to determine if there were sex differences in the prescription and consumption of analgesic medications. No significant sex differences were found in any of the baseline pain characteristics. In addition, no significant sex differences were found in analgesic prescriptions or intake of analgesic medications. Of note, men reported significantly higher pain interference scores for sexual activity than women. The study findings are important because they suggest that, unlike in acute pain, sex may not influence patients' perceptions of and responses to chronic cancer pain.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15336334 DOI： 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2003.12.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pain Symptom Manage ISSN： 0885-3924 Impact factor: 3.612