Living with and managing cancer pain

Pain doesn’t affect everyone with cancer, even in the dying phase, but it does affect many. The pain can be from the primary cancer itself or from areas to where the cancer has spread, like the bones.

Cancer pain is a different type of pain to manage from other sorts of chronic pain. In some cases, doctors provide more cancer treatment (chemotherapy or radiation) to help shrink the tumors that may be causing the pain, while in other cases, strong doses of pain killers may be given.

Here is an interesting article on cancer pain, where the author discusses controlling the pain: Stay Ahead of the Pain.

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