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Cancer Pain


Cancer does not always cause pain so work out what this particular pain is being caused by

    • Primary tumour?
    • Metastases?
    • Treatment related
    • Unrelated issue?

It is usually progressive in nature

Patient may be distressed - due to many factors including emotional/psychological/social

  • "Total pain"

Cancer pain can be:

  • Mixed nociceptive/neuropathic
  • Acute/chronic or acute on chronic?
  • Incident or breakthrough pain?


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