Palliative Pain in Cancer Patients Master Class: Patient Work-Up

Moderators: 

• Sean M. Tutton, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE
• Dan TD Nguyen, MD, FASSR

Faculty: 

• Sean M. Tutton, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE | Evaluation and Physical Examination of Cancer Patients with Pain
  • Learning Objectives:
    • Define the scope of the problem
    • Discuss how pain effects cancer treatment and patient care options as well as opioid risks long term
    • Discuss WHO guidelines for pharmacologic/radiotherapy management)
    • Discuss most common areas of cancer related pain
    • Discuss techniques to evaluate and isolate the source of pain
    • Differentiating between different sources of pain (i.e. – bone, nerve, soft tissue)

• Ahmad Parvinian, MD | Anatomic and Imaging Evaluation of Cancer Specific Pain
  • Learning Objectives
    • Focus on what the physician needs to know for treatment planning
    • Demonstrate cases where different metastatic lesions affecting adjacent structures causing pain
    • Discuss optimal imaging strategies for delineating pain and potential complications of image-guided therapy

• Dan TD Nguyen, MD, FASSR | What Standardized Evaluation Systems Should I be Using in My Clinic and Current Guidelines for Pain Management?
  • Learning Objectives:
    • Discuss the current evaluation systems I can implement in my clinical evaluation of pain and templates I can implement in my clinic
    • Discuss the current NCCN guidelines for cancer related pain
    • How to optimally build a pain and palliation practice

• Junjian Huang, MD | What Happens to the Nerve during Ablation, and What Should I be Worried About? 
  • Learning Objectives:
    • Basic understanding of nerve related pain
    • Response of the nerve to cryoablation, and recovery after thermal injury
    • What are the trade-offs for alleviating pain