[Pain therapy in the recurrence of colorectal cancer]

After exploiting all causal therapies there are other therapeutic methods only for soothing, viz. anodyne drug therapy using peripheral or central efficient analgesics, opiates and opioids as well. Procedures with destructing the pain-sensitive nerve path (chemical neurolysis using a method like conduction anaesthesia) and blockage of the sympathetic trunk and plexus coeliacus are preferred against intrathecal rhizolysis. Operative: Percutaneous cervical chordotomy. If insufficient analgesia results by these methods patients may get a peridural long acting catheter for applying local anaesthetics and/or opioide/opiate. Special importance is attached to the psychological care of all these patients.