Cancer Pain Management
As a pain physician treating patients with various chronic pain conditions, approach to management of Cancer pain is complex depending on stage of cancer, operability, chemotherapy and radiotherapy status, patient’s physical and mental status to accept and endure pain and palliative interventions. Following are few interventions Pharmacotherapy according to WHO ladder including morphine prescription Psychological […]
What You Need to Know about Cancer Pain
Despite tremendous progress in medicine during the last couple of decades, cancer still remains the most horrifying diagnosis. Thanks to improved treatments, people are living longer and the number of long-term cancer survivors continues to grow. Pain is one of the most common, much-feared and unattended problems for cancer patients. Cancer pain is chronic and […]
Understanding Chronic Pain
Pain can affect all of us. It is estimated that one in three people experience some type of ongoing, chronic pain. Acute pain is protective, alerts you to an injury and usually a symptom of the underlying disease typically lasting for upto 30 days. Chronic pain is pathological and usually a disease in itself. What […]