CHRONIC PAIN IN ONCOLOGY

Abstract
This work is a revision, with some changes, of another one of the same author entitled "Chronic pain and subjectivity in oncology", published in Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia in 2002. In spite of the advances ocurred in the last two centuries there are still many doubts about ethiology and maintenance of chronic pain, and returning to the history helps us to understand in which way the definitions, theories and techniques of treatment, as well as psychological ones, have been developing. Only at 19th century scientific community begun to study pain and at 20th century, it had a systemic point of view. At this moment, besides the increasing of the concern about this theme, we have a consensus regarding to subjective and multifactorial character of pain, wich request a specialized and multidisciplinar treatment approach, to identify and solve the problems of comunication and measurement of pain, and amplify therapeutics care offered to the patients, their families/caregivers and to the health care team.

Key words
Psychology and pain; psycho-oncology; pain an, Psychology and pain; psycho-oncology; pain an

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