kenny1983uk
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 Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:33 am Post subject: A post about kidney cancer pain |
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Since I can't find a place for kidney cancer, I will post here. the article is about cancer pain of kidney cancer.
[b]Q2, How to relieve pain for an advanced kidney cancer patient?[/b]
[u]The pain of advanced kidney cancer is hard to tolerate. Cancer pain is caused by the tumour pressing on bones, nerves or other organs in your body in most cases. To relieve symptom, the ideal way is to remove the source of the pain, for example, through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation (3D Conformal Radiotherapy (3D-CRT), in general, radiotherapy does not work as well for kidney cancer as for other kinds of cancer, but as a palliative treatment, radiotherapy plays a good role in shrinking the tumors, easing pain and other symptoms of advanced kidney cancer that has spread to bone, brain or other areas of the body. Research shows that combination of radiotherapy and other therapies (such as targeted therapy) can do a better job.) or some other form of treatment. If that cannot be done, pain medications can usually control the pain. Strong opioid medications for advanced renal cell carcinoma includes: morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl or methadone, but these pain medications have many risks. Still as I said in another SUTENT side effects post, read the instruction books or official websites first before whatever you are going to take.
And others are treatment-related, such as such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery — are another potential source of cancer pain. Chemotherapy can cause many potentially painful side effects, including mouth sores, diarrhea and nerve damage, surgery can be painful, and it may take time to recover.
Specialized treatment, such as nerve blocks, also may be applicable. Nerve blocks are a local anesthetic that is injected around or into a nerve, which prevents pain messages traveling along that nerve pathway from reaching the brain. Other therapies, such as acupuncture, acupressure, massage, physical therapy, relaxation, meditation and humor, may help as well.
Many doctors are slow to take pain seriously. They fail to ask about it, and they are afraid to use powerful painkillers. So don’t be afraid to pester them. My experience is that some are also unwilling to learn. After reading this you may know more than some of them do.[/u]
hope this helps.best wishes to all!
Last edited by kenny1983uk on Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:57 am; edited 1 time in total |
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