Cancer Pain: Beyond the Usual Pain Medications
Different types of pain problems require targeted approaches when treating cancer patients. Pain along a nerve, nerve ending pain, or bone pain are optimally treated…
Articles Written By: Dr. Stewart Fleishman
This author has written 5 articles
Cancer Pain: Dispelling Myths about Powerful Painkillers
In last week's column I identified the types of pain often found with cancer, as well as the treatment of minor pain with over-the-counter pain…
Cancer Pain: Prevalent and Treatable
Pain is one of the top five symptoms experienced in cancer. Despite the many effective interventions, many patients do not have accurate or up-to-date information…
Palliative Care: Not Just for the Dying
Palliative Care: very few of us understand the actual meaning of these words, including most physicians, and certainly the public at large. Palliative care has…
Someone You Love Has Cancer
All of us, practically without exception, have been in this situation: someone you love finds out they have cancer. They may be in the hospital…