What Does Cancer Pain Actually Feel Like?
If you are suffering from cancer, you may have to deal with a lot of pain. While not everyone with cancer experiences pain, a significant number do. The pain that you feel will be different...
Report: Smoking Worsens Chronic Pain
When you live with chronic pain, you know how hard it can be to find any relief. However, smoking can worsen chronic pain, and cause other health problems. The addictive substance in cigarettes is...
What Is Chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is designed to kill quickly reproducing cells in the body, most commonly cancer cells, by using highly potent chemicals. The chemicals used will vary based upon the type of cancer the patient has.
How...
What Is Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)?
It's common to have pain associated with cancer before you have a mastectomy. But not many people realize that you may also experience persistent pain after having surgery. And this pain may be noticeably...
The Link Between Ovarian Cancer and Back Pain
Ovarian cancer is not as common as other cancers, accounting for just 3% of female cancers in the United States (for comparison, that number is 12% for breast cancer). However, an ovarian cancer diagnosis...
Everything You Need to Know About Cancer Pain
As if the emotional distress from living with cancer isn’t hard enough on patients and their loved ones, patients also have to find relief from the physical pain. Sadly, a journey with cancer –...
How Do I Tackle Cancer Pain?
If you're fighting cancer, you likely deal with pain to some extent. Sometimes you might have several different forms of pain, making it difficult to explain to others and challenging for you to manage...
I Have Cancer: Now What Do I Do?
When a diagnosis of cancer hits home, it may be hard to figure out how to keep your composure and what to expect. Follow these guidelines to learn the best ways to keep your...
Overall Cancer Mortality on Decline, Prostate Cancer Mortality Stabilized
The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men, women, and children in the United States in all major racial...
Study Finds That Celebrex Slows Cancer Growth
Living with pain is difficult enough. But dealing with pain and cancer – or, worse, pain caused by cancer – is a nightmare no one should have to endure. Luckily, there is new hope...
5 Ways to Manage Breast Cancer Pain
If you have breast cancer, then you probably also have breast cancer pain. It’s common for people living with cancer to have pain. There are many different kinds of pain, too. Some days your...
Four Ways to Be a Better Caregiver
How one husband learned how to be a better caregiver to his wife during her fight against breast cancer.
In her fight against breast cancer, my wife, Marsha, was sliced with a scalpel, poked with...
Here’s What We Know About Cannabis and Cancer
There are debates all over the country about the effectiveness of cannabis as a cancer treatment. These discussions center around what cannabis can do to help cancer patients, and whether or not it is...
A Parents’ Guide to Help With Childhood Cancer Pain
Facing childhood cancer is devastating for the entire family. A parent may be overwhelmed and unsure how to help. The tips below explain tactics to help ease your child's pain and fears.
Be honest about what's...
Managing Peripheral Neuropathy Pain Due to Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is still the most common and effective treatment for many types of cancer. However, it comes with a variety of side effects that you might need to manage. While chemotherapy kills the cancer...
Treating Metastatic Cancer Pain With the STAR Method
Patients suffering from metastatic cancer, or cancer that has spread from the primary cancer location, face special challenges. Usually, treatments are given by mouth or injection so they can travel throughout the body. These...
Courage by Design
A Daughter's Caring Creates A Gem of an Idea
By Margaret Jaworski
When Stephanie Hansen first learned that her mother, Sue, had breast cancer, she struggled to control her emotions, to stay calm and project strength....
Study: Antidepressant Eases Nerve Pain From Chemo
Cancer comes with all kinds of pain, sometimes from the disease itself, and often directly and indirectly from treatment, including the discomforts caused by chemotherapy. As many as 40 percent of cancer patients who...
Researchers Discover A New Type of Chemotherapy
Scientists have discovered a new type of chemotherapy that locates a partner's gene and eradicates cancer cells.
Scientists at the University of Alberta have discovered a partner gene, that when zapped, kills cancer cells.
When a...
Lung Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment 101
When cells of the lung start growing rapidly in an uncontrolled manner, the condition is called lung cancer. Cancer can affect any part of the lung and it's the leading cause of cancer deaths...
