Cancer Pain treamtment in kansas
Cancer Pain may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts, from treatments, or from the body’s own hormonal and immune responses. Chronic (long-lasting) pain is usually caused by the cancer itself and acute (short-term) pain is caused by treatment or diagnostic procedures (iatrogenic).
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The presence of chronic pain depends mainly on the location of the cancer and the stage of the disease. At any given time, about half of all patients with malignant cancer are experiencing pain, and two-thirds of those with advanced cancer experience pain of such intensity that it adversely affects their sleep, mood, social relations, and activities of daily living.
Iatrogenic Causes
Immunotherapy: It may produce joint or muscle pain
Radiotherapy: It can cause enteritis, fibrosis, myelopathy, bone necrosis, neuropathy, or plexopathy.
Chemotherapy: Associated with mucosal inflammation, joint pain, muscle pain, peripheral neuropathy, and abdominal pain due to diarrhea or constipation.
Hormone therapy: It sometimes causes pain flares, targeted therapies, such as trastuzumab and rituximab, which can cause muscle, joint, or chest pain; angiogenesis inhibitors like bevacizumab, known to sometimes cause bone pain.
Surgery: It may produce post-operative pain, post-amputation pain, or pelvic floor myalgia.
What Are The Symptoms Of Cancer Pain?
The type of pain experienced can help us understand the source of the pain is coming from. For example, pain brought on by nerve damage is frequently described as ‘burning’ or ‘tingling’, whereas internal organ pain is frequently described as a pressure-like sensation.
