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Treatment of visceral pain
Medical expert of the article
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
The problem of visceral pain is especially relevant for cancer patients. More than half of cancer patients suffer from pain of varying intensity.
As for the treatment of pain syndrome in cancer patients, the main role, as many years ago, is given to pharmacotherapy - non-narcotic and narcotic analgesics, used according to a three-step scheme:
- choose a drug that eliminates or reduces pain in 2-3 days;
- prescribe analgesics according to a "clock" schedule, when the next dose is administered before the effect of the previous one ceases and
- pain relief "ascending" - from the maximum weak dose to the minimum strong dose.
The main emphasis is still on opioids, and in cases of very severe pain, it is advisable to administer narcotic drugs epidurally or subarachnoidally.