Get Help Managing Cancer-Related Pain

A new study found that many patients coping with cancer reported better managing their cancer-related pain after receiving emotional and/or practical support. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, also found that education about pain management helped patients learn to better control their pain.

Read more about the study.

Pain is a symptom of cancer and its treatments that can—and should—be controlled. CancerCare’s professional oncology social workers work with people coping with cancer to develop strategies for managing cancer-related pain. It is important for patients to discuss any pain they are experiencing with their health care team, which can include doctors, nurses, social workers, or pain specialists.

CancerCare provides pain-management information in our free publications, Controlling Cancer Pain: What You Need to Know to Get Relief, and “Opening the Door to Effective Pain Management.” Leading medical experts also addressed pain-management techniques during CancerCare’s Connect Education Workshop, “Coping with Cancer Pain: What You Need to Know.”

Learn more about CancerCare’s free resources about pain management.

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 2:05 pm and is filed under Clinical Trials, Doctor-Patient Communication, Mind-Body-Spirit, Treatment Side Effects. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Get Help Managing Cancer-Related Pain”

  1. Jeanie M. Barnett says:
    February 9, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Hi Linda, thanks for contacting us. We appreciate your wanting to post information about our free Connect Education Workshops on your website and grant permission for you to do so. We would appreciate if you describe our workshops with the following language:
    “CancerCare provides free, educational workshops that feature top experts in oncology providing up-to-date information about a wide variety of cancer-related topics. Connect workshops can be listened to live over the telephone or online; previously recorded workshops are also available as podcasts. Please visit http://www.cancercare.org/connect_workshops to learn more.”

    We also offer a ‘button’ you can embed on your website that will directly link to our workshop web page — you’ll find the html code in the sidebar.

    Again, many thanks for promoting our Connect Education Workshops on your website.

    Best,

    Jeanie Barnett
    Director of Communications

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