Pain is an important aspect of the cancer experience for many patients. Pain is a burden for many cancer survivors, while living with cancerous tumours and the strain of chemotherapy are both themselves usually painful endeavours. For these reason, the European Pain...
EFIC and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) are co-organising a session at the EAN congress on the use of cannabinoids for chronic pain. The ‘controversies’ session will be addressed by EFIC Board member Prof. Elon Eisenberg. ‘The use of cannabinoids for chronic...
Since 2012, the European Pain Federation EFIC and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) have fought for greater awareness of pain through the European/Global Year Against Pain campaign. In 2020, the theme of the campaign is the Prevention of Pain....
We are happy to share the experience of one of our EFIC Fellows, Aleksei Potaturko, who had the opportunity to attend the EFIC fellowship at the Leuven Centre for Algology & Pain Management of the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium: “My fellowship took...
The first pain clinic of Lithuania was established at the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos twenty five years ago. The anniversary was commemorated at a special conference which took place on October 11, 2019. The keynote speech was held by Dr Alfredas...
Why this paper? Pain is a common symptom in patients who survive cancer and in those who live with progressive advanced disease. Evidence from meta‐analyses suggests that pain remains poorly controlled for a large proportion of patients; barriers to good management...
