Questions and Answers
About Pain Control
A Guide For People With Cancer and Their Families
American Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute
offer Questions and Answers About Pain Control to cancer patients, their
families, and their friends. We hope it will lessen your fears about pain
and help you understand its treatment.
You may find it helpful to use this as a reference rather than reading it
all at once. Remember, it cannot take the place of your doctor or nurse.
You should feel free to ask them any questions you have. It is a good idea
to write down your questions and to take them with you when you go for your
treatment or an appointment. The material in this guide should make it easier
for you to talk with those who are taking care of you and thus make it easier
for them to help you. Click on the boldfaced words for a complete definition
from the Glossary.
Dealing with Pain, sponsored by the Connecticut Division, Inc., of the American
Cancer Society and the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut,
was the basis of the first edition of Questions and Answers About Pain Control:
A Guide for People with Cancer and Their Families. Since that time, new
advances in pain control have taken place. This guide reflects many of those
advances. We wish to thank the many reviewers, people who work with cancer
patients daily, for their helpful comments and their assistance in revising
Questions and Answers About Pain Control.
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