Pain Management

Cancer Pain (https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/physical-side-effects/pain.html)

Learn more about cancer-related pain and how it can be managed and treated at the American Cancer Society.

Guide to Controlling Cancer Pain (https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/cancer-control/en/booklets-flyers/guide-to-controlling-cancer-pain.pdf)

A downloadable PDF from the American Cancer Society written to help people with cancer learn about pain control.

CancerCare (http://www.cancercare.org/tagged/pain)

CancerCare provides telephone, online and face-to-face counseling, support groups, education, publications, and financial and co-payment assistance. Professional oncology social workers offer personalized care, and all of our services are free of charge.

The Specialty of Chronic Pain Management (https://www.asra.com/page/44/the-specialty-of-chronic-pain-management)

This site explains the role of a pain management specialists, who are physicians with special training in acute pain, chronic pain, cancer pain, and sometimes a combination of these. It describes how these professionals can help patients.

Pain (PDQ®) (http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/side-effects/pain/pain-pdq)

General information about cancer pain from the National Cancer Institute.