Cancer pain: how to express

In any case, it is not inevitable. Let the light on pain in cancer and the solutions currently available for support.

Why cancer is he suffering?

Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and / or surgery, cancer treatments are accompanied by side effects that worry patients. In addition to severe fatigue and nausea,aion items, cancer patients have to endure intense pain. Examples include radiation therapy that destroys tumors but also the surrounding healthy cells, which can impair the nerves located near the irradiated area. The post-operative pain after surgical removal of a tumor can also cause severe pain that lasts longer or shorter.
Salaries are not the only cause pain. Before applying the treatment protocol, certain tests and other interventions are not without painful side effects, such as performing a biopsy or bronchoscopy. And finally, at an earlier stage, cancer may be a direct cause of pain. Bone metastases example can be very painful effect by simply mechanical. The complications of cancer are also such as metastasis, which causes a fracture or compressing a nerve.

How does relieve the pain is cancer?

The drugs used against pain are classified by the World Health into three levels: analgesics (paracetamol, aspirin …), opiates (codeine and its derivatives) and opioid (morphine).
If first-line and face intense pain just being used for analgesics, opioids reserved for severe pain are increasingly used by the medical profession. Except that the public still fears these substances, involving the relief of end of life and dependency. Some patients come to ignore their pain or minimize to not receive morphine …
However, the presentation of opioid substances has been extended. The injection and infusion are not the only modes of administration. Capsules, sprays, oral solutions, gels, dressings, patches, etc.. Are now available.
Meanwhile, other techniques are used to fight against pain: massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, therapy, mesotherapy, psychotherapy .

Only one solution: to describe the pain!

Still, to handle the pain, it is still necessary to express, describe, speak to doctors and other health professionals. For some patients, pain is regarded as inevitable inherent cancer. This is not normal. Overall, hospital and post-operative pain is well taken care of immediately and systematically. However, it is less in the consultations. Patients should be encouraged to initiate dialogue with their physician, to acquire the vocabulary needed to describe their pain (burning, distortion, pressure, night …). The pain must be part of cancer therapy.