With the word ‘Cancer’, a common thought comes as painful death. Pain is experienced by around 75% patients with advanced disease and by around 25% at the time of diagnosis. About 80-90% of cancer pain is relieved by pharmacological methods.
The reason of pain in cancer patients are:
- Cancer related
- Soft tissue infiltration
- Infiltration of plexus/nerve roots/peripheral nerves
- Infiltration of bone
- Infiltration of base of skull/cranial nerves
- Treatment related
- Post surgical
- Post radiation syndrome
- Post chemotherapy
- Debility related
- Decubitus ulcer
- Vertebral fractures
- Nerve compression
- Concurrent related
- Osteoporosis
- Osteoarthritis
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- No cause that can be immediately established
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