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Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief
Pain Management for End of Life
Pain Management - M.D. Anderson
Understanding Cancer Pain, Caregivers Guide, Cancer Pain Treatment
Pain: Treatment and Control Issues
Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief
provides information, coping strategies and tools to help cancer patients and their caregivers understand the basics of pain management and better communicate with their doctors. This CD-ROM has personal stories, medication fact sheets, reporting & management tools and tips on how to work with your medical team. Learn more about cancer pain and what you can do by reviewing the Spotlight on Cancer Pain section of our website.
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Pain Management for End of Life
Introduction
Many people who are seriously ill fear a painful death more than the loss of their life. This finding is according to the 1995 SUPPORT study. The fear of unrelieved pain is not unfounded. For many Americans, pain is vastly undertreated, even at the end of their lives.
Recent medical studies have shown that most pain problems can be managed to a reasonable comfort level through the use of pain-relieving medications provided by knowledgeable healthcare professionals. Advances in pain treatment, including new drugs, injections, infusions, implantable devices, radiation treatments and surgical techniques, have allowed for many difficult pain problems to be managed to comfort levels. It has been predicted that close to 98% of all pain problems can be relieved or reduced. The availability of pain specialists, pain management teams and/or healthcare professionals willing to work together with people living with pain is the key to successful pain relief.
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Pain Management - M.D. Anderson
About one-third of patients being treated for cancer have pain, and each patient’s pain is unique. Therefore, each patient’s pain management plan must be carefully designed. At M. D. Anderson, we consider pain the fifth vital sign and review our patients’ pain management needs as often as we take their pulse or temperature. We work to find the best combination of pain-controlling treatments so that our patients can experience the best possible quality of life. We hope you'll find the resources on this page helpful in alleviating your -- or your loved one's -- cancer pain.
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Understanding Cancer Pain, Caregivers Guide, Cancer Pain Treatment
When you or a loved one receives a diagnosis of cancer, it isn't long before you begin to think of the pain many people associate with cancer. It can be a frightening time. What will the pain be like? What will it do to our lives?
Today, most concerns about cancer-related pain can be relieved by understanding the facts about cancer pain, and learning about the help that is available for pain relief. That's what cancer-pain.org is here to do, with credible information that can help you and your health care provider cope with cancer pain.
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Pain: Treatment and Control Issues
We have attempted to give you a selection of information available on the Internet on cancer pain. In addition we have included the various search engines that you may use and some links on how to search. Remember some links in the search engine searches may not bring you to a page because it has been removed from the Internet for a number of reasons.
The searches are general searches without any intent on limiting the searches other than the topic as given.
This information has been examined with some care to see if it is something that may be useful to you during this trying time. However one can not examine the results of the searches and our opinion may be different than yours or others.
Prostate-Help Topics on Pain
http://prostate-help.org/documents/238.html
Learning how to search
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=facts
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/searchtip.html
Search engines
http://www.live.com/?searchonly=true&mkt=en-US
http://www.google.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/
http://www.ask.com/
Answers.com - Overall discussion
http://www.answers.com/%22death+and+dying%22?cat=biz-fin
Cancer pain in general
http://www.cancer-pain.org/
http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/paincontrol/
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/paincontrol
http://www.nccn.org/patients/patient_gls/_english/_pain/contents.asp
http://tinyurl.com/kr2ta
Introduction to Pain Management: Opioid Pharmacotherapy
Prostate cancer pain
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020501/1834.html
http://tinyurl.com/3e2pv6
http://www.hrpca.org/painrelief.html
Hospice Organizations and services
http://www.hospicenet.org/
http://www.amitabhahospice.org/hospice/signs_of_dying.php
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
http://www.stvincent.org/ourservices/hospice/preparing/default.htm
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Salvage of Local Therapy
Articles, Studies and Links
Hormone Refractory (HRPC)
Bisphosphonates precautions
The Research of Bill Aishman
Chemotherapy
Pain Management
Death and Dying
PHID Advanced Archives
