Interventional therapies are considered when intolerable side effects are noted with systemic medications or when systemic pain medications provide inadequate relief or there is concern for respiratory depression with increasing doses. Timing of interventional therapies and risks of interventional versus oral therapies is controversial, but certain studies have found fewer side effects with neuraxial techniques as compared to oral medications.
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Saw, N., & Nguyen, M. (2017). Cancer pain: Interventional therapies. In Pain Medicine: An Essential Review (pp. 445–446). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_116
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