Abstract
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationship between catastrophism and somatosensory, emotional and cognitive dimensions of pain in patients with advanced cancer. Seventy patients (22M,48F) of mean age 52.7 years with advanced cancer, stage II-IV, participated in the study. Karnofsky Performance Status ranged between 90 and 60, ean pain intensity was 2.2, SD 1.7 (range 0-5). Duration of cancer ranged between 2 and 240 months. 37% of patients had breast cancer, 1.8% prostate, 3.6% head or neck, 10.7% lung/bronchus, 17.9% colorectal, 28.6% other.
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