USE OF INHALED NITROUS OXIDE OR XENON FOR PREVENTING NEUROPATHIC PAIN CAUSED BY CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicament used by inhalation or the like for preventing and/or for treating neuropathic pain or pains caused by at least one cancer chemotherapy substance containing one or more compounds chosen from platinum salts, taxanes, alkaloids, thalidomide and bortezomib, in particular paclitaxel, docetaxel or oxaliplatin, administered to a patient suffering from cancer, in particular a patient suffering from breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer or a gastric cancer or cancer of the upper aerodigestive tracts.SOLUTION: A gaseous inhalable medicament contains xenon or NO with 5-70% of the effective volume proportion.