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As cancer survival has improved, the number of patients suffering from the debilitating, painful after effects of cancer treatment has increased. Almost 50% of patients undergoing cancer-related surgery involving damage to a major peripheral nerve will develop chronic neuropathic pain. The well-known therapeutic limitations targeting already established neuropathic pain argue for intense investigation into preventive analgesics. Recent advances in our understanding of neuropathic pain mechanisms may allow effective preventive therapy in the near future.
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Van de Ven, T.J., Gulati, A. (2019). Postsurgical Pain Syndromes. In: Gulati, A., Puttanniah, V., Bruel, B., Rosenberg, W., Hung, J. (eds) Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_5
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