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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 […]
Experimental Procedure Performed as Part of a Large U.S. Clinical Trial
TIRAT CARMEL, Israel, July 21 /PRNewswire/ — InSightec Ltd. announced
today that the first U.S. patient has been treated in the company’s pivotal
trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the non-invasive,
radiation-free ExAblate(R) Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound
(MRgFUS) system as a pain relieving treatment for patients with […]
The worlds “ovarian cancer” can be frightening. Unfortunately, it’s often one of those cancers that is usually detected only when it has progressed so far that the prognosis is less than one would hope for.
Sure, we read of the signs and symptoms, but they’re so vague that they can be easily brushed off as something […]
Although not everyone with cancer develops pain, many do. Sadly, it’s often not treated properly. This problem could be due to the patient or the family (unwillingness to be “doped up” or become dependent upon the medications) or the healthcare staff who don’t know how to properly control cancer pain.
I found this interesting article over […]
Breakthrough cancer pain can be very tough to treat. This is the pain that is felt when the regular pain medications don’t hold you as well as they should for as long as they should. So, if you are feeling pain, you can have a separate medication, or more of the original, on top of […]
People who have head and neck cancer and who have surgery to remove tumors are often left with neck and/or shoulder pain as a result. This can become a big issue in quality of life and employment because it may result in extremely limited mobility with the arm or even turning the head.
According to study […]
The political and news worlds are abuzz with the news that Senator Edward Kennedy has a brain tumor, discovered after he experienced a seizure over the weekend.
I can’t claim to know if Senator Kennedy had any symptoms that might have tipped off doctors earlier, but it’s interesting to note that his first obvious symptom […]
When I worked with people who had cancer, I saw several patients who had mucositis, a painful condition in the mouth. Sores form inside the mouth, which has become inflamed and very painful, making it very hard for patients to swallow their own saliva, let alone food and drink.
For many, mucositis is almost the last […]
Fentora (fentanyl tablets) is a medication that was approved in 2006 to treat patients with cancer who are living with severe chronic pain. The company that manufactures Fentora had applied to the FDA to allow the medication be prescribed to treat noncancer chronic pain.
According to the article, FDA Panel Rejects Wider Use of Painkiller, […]
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