Palliative Care & Pain Management: Pain Management

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Evaluating and Treating Cancer Pain
Pain specialist Paul Glare explains the causes of cancer-related pain, and describes strategies to help manage it.
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For many patients, pain management is the most significant aspect of palliative care. Our Center-wide program ensures that patients who have pain are identified as soon as possible and treated appropriately and effectively. Choose from the list below to find up-to-date information about cancer pain and pain management.

  • Overview of Cancer Pain
    Most newly diagnosed cancer patients do not actually have pain associated with the disease. Nonetheless, it is a symptom that many cancer patients fear at diagnosis.
  • Causes of Cancer Pain
    Patients with cancer can have pain from the tumor itself, or as a side effect of treatment.
  • Treating Cancer Pain
    If you are feeling pain during or after treatment for cancer, talk to your physician or nurse. Options are available for managing pain effectively in most patients.
  • Management of Side Effects
    Because many common side effects of pain medicines are also symptoms of other conditions — including, sometimes, the underlying cancer — an interdisciplinary approach to pain management is important.
  • Pain Management After the Hospital Stay
    Whether the patient is in the hospital, at home, or in a long-term care facility, effective pain management is an essential part of comprehensive cancer care.
  • Pain Management: FAQs
    Answers to questions about pain management that patients and caregivers have asked Memorial Sloan-Kettering clinicians.
  • Research
    Recent accomplishments in pain research by Memorial Sloan-Kettering specialists.
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