Cancer pain relief: all depends on where on this planet you live

Blogs like this focus mostly on the so-called developed countries and sometimes that bothers me. Here I talk about different kinds of treatments and what works and what doesn’t – when there are millions of people who don’t have access to the most basic of pain relief.

According to a report published in September of last year, “…80% of the world’s cancer sufferers have no access to pain relief and 7% of all people in the world suffer cancer pain that could be relieved but isn’t due to lack of access to low cost and effective pain relieving drugs.”

You can read the complete report here: 7% of World Population Suffering Unnecessary Cancer Pain

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