A prospective and comparative study of analgesic drug in the treatment of cancer pain

Abstract

The aim of our study was to compare the appropriate selection of analgesic drugs in the cancer pain.In a prospective study spent 8 months (January to August 2013), we analyzed the prescription data of 100 patients of cancer with pain. We retrieved prescription data from patient profile forms and documented essential data in a Patient Profile Form, designed for our study. Out of 100 cases 67% were male and 33% were female. Out of these 100 prescriptions analyzed,89% patients were prescribed with opioid and 11% non-opioid analgesics. Therefore opioids were thecommonly prescribed drug for the cancer paintreatment, followed by non-opioids.In this study, the minor and major side effects of opioid drugs were 85% and 15% respectively.