Facilitating coping with cancer pain

Abstract

Pain can be regarded as a complex sociosomato psychic phenomenon. Helping people with cancer pain requires more than skilled drug prescribing. It calls for a holistic approach which takes into account the society and culture of the patient, and necessitates optimal communication with patient and family and knowledge of the psychological processes of coping with stress. Only a multilevel approach is likely to be effective in such total patient care.

Palliative medicine

“…80 Davidson in his review, for example, points out that in asking questions about pain and mobility often we avoid the real questions about life and death, and is blunt in asking then how can we see the meaning of pain outside the negative or evil. 81 However, virtually all cancer patients with appropriate history and investigation will be found to have one or more physical precipitants.82 It is important, for example, to identify as early as possible specifically remediable lesions responsive to radiotherapy,83 or more specific approaches.…”