Services on Demand
Journal
Article
Indicators
- Cited by SciELO
- Access statistics
Related links
- Similars in SciELO
Share
Gaceta mexicana de oncología
On-line version ISSN 2565-005XPrint version ISSN 1665-9201
Abstract
MIMIAGA-LOPEZ, Gabriela A. et al. Effectiveness of Tapentadol in cancer patients with neuropathic pain. Gac. mex. oncol. [online]. 2022, vol.21, n.1, pp.3-9. Epub Feb 14, 2022. ISSN 2565-005X. https://doi.org/10.24875/j.gamo.22000026.
Objective:
To determine the effectiveness of Tapentadol in cancer patients with neuropathic pain.
Material and methods:
A descriptive, longitudinal, observational and prospective study was carried out including patients with cancer diagnosis and neuropathic pain treated at the pain clinic between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2019.
Results:
63 patients with a mean age of 59.07 ± 11.06 years were included, of which 76.2% (n = 48) were female. In the EVERA (verbal analog scale) and DN4 (neuropathic pain in 4 questions) scales, a significant difference was observed after treatment and when Tapentadol was initially used, a lower proportion of adverse effects was observed.
Conclusions:
Tapentadol proved to be an equally effective tool as other treatments, both as an initial or rotation drug, and when used as first line, it had better tolerability.
Keywords : Tapentadol; Neuropathic pain; Opioids; Oncological pain.