How to Manage Cancer Pain

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Tip 1 - Pain Control: Support for People With Cancer

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dawn Barrs | permalink

Covers pain control medicines for cancer patients, pain control plans, talking with your health care team about pain, and coping with the physical and emotional effects of pain.

For further reading: http://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/pain-control ^[1]

Tip 2 - Cancer pain management - Better Health Channel

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gustavo Ioschpe | permalink

For further reading: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Cancer_pain_management ^[2]

Tip 3 - Pain: Treating Pain with Medication

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by jim GNEWKOWSKI | permalink

People living with cancer may experience pain as a symptom of the cancer or as a side effect of cancer treatment. However, nearly all cancer-related pain can be successfully treated or managed with the help of your health care team. Addressing pain, fatigue, and other symptoms that affect your quality of life is known as palliative or supportive care and is an important part of your overall cancer treatment plan.

For further reading: http://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/side-effects/pain-treating-pain-medication ^[3]

Tip 4 - Cancer Pain

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Greyline 108 | permalink

Cancer pain is manageable. WebMD explains its causes and symptoms and how it is treated.
Tags: Pain, pain management, cancer pain, cancer pain treatments, opioids, NSAIDs, tylenol, biofeedback, alternatives

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/guide/pain-management-cancer-pain ^[4]

Tip 5 - Current aproach to cancer pain management: Availability and implications of different treatment options

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by robert kalu | permalink

Despite tremendous progress in medicine during last couple of decades, cancer still remains the most horrifying diagnosis for anybody due to its almost inevitable futility. According to American Cancer Society Statistics, it is estimated that only in ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386360/ ^[5]