This brief 15 page booklet contains a range of valuable information for cancer patients and their support groups about cancer pain and its management. It addresses how cancer causes pain, why pain relief is so important, what patients need to tell their health professionals about their pain, what can be done to manage pain including non pharmacological methods, why pain medicines often should be taken on a regular schedule, breakthrough pain, how much pain relief should be expected, what to do if one is allergic to pain medicine, side effects of pain medicines, why not to wait until pain is really bad before taking medicine for it, dependence, addiction, whether pain medicines shorten life, family and friend worries about pain medicine, when to “complain” about pain, not running out of pain medicine, what to do if the medicine does not work, how family and friends can help, and what to do if a health professional says nothing more can be done for the pain.
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