Barriers to Cancer Pain Relief

Cancer: Relief of Pain and Possible Cure

Relief of pain in incurable cancer.

Pain Relief

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Pain Relief

This study of 513 mothers aimed to determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial on the use of aromatherapy during labor as a care option that could improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Pain perception was reduced in the aromatherapy group for nulliparae (first time delivery of a child). There were no associated adverse effects of using EO’s on maternal or neonatal ou...

Pain Report #14 Cancer Pain: Etiology, Barriers, Assessment, and Treatment Cancer Pain: Etiology, Barriers, Assessment, and Treatment

Cancer pain affects more than one in four patients with early-stage cancer, and approximately three out of every four patients with advanced disease according to recent statistics (Bennett et al. 2012)(Hearn et al.2003)(Van Den Beuken, 2007)(Higginson, 2010). Cancer pain may result from direct tumor invasion of local tissues, compression or invasion of nerves, metastasis into bone, visceral obs...