2015, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp 32 – 36

Pain-associated biomarkers in breast cancer

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Correspondence to:Costina Diaconu, MD, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Oncological Institute Bucharest, 252 Fundeni Rd., District 2, Bucharest Phone: +40 21 227 10 00, E-mail: costinadiaconu@yahoo.com

Abstract

Breast cancer represents a major public health problem, being the highest incidence neoplasia in females in Romania. The most important step in the treatment of this neoplasia is the surgical procedure; the biggest problem associated with this form of treatment in these patients is pain-related. Pain is a complex symptom with an impact on quality of life and psychology of cancer patient and can only be monitored verbally and subjectively. Consequently, the purpose of our work is to identify some biochemical parameters involved in the events cascade associated with inflammation and pain in breast cancer female patients, monitored in dynamics of anesthesia and surgical procedure. Measurements of lipid peroxides, ceruloplasmin and immune circulating complexes in mentioned dynamics have been performed. The recorded values are in concordance with the inflammatory processes and pain intensity, thus we can allege that these measurements can complete the pain-associated clinical picture in female breast cancer patients.

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PMC ID: 4397516
PubMed ID: 25914735
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Article Publishing Date (print): Jan-Mar 2015
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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

Copyright License: Open Access

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