Cancer Pain

Cancer Pain may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts, from treatments, or from the body’s own hormonal and immune responses. Chronic (long-lasting) pain is usually caused by the cancer itself and acute (short-term) pain is caused by treatment or diagnostic procedures (iatrogenic). The presence of chronic pain depends mainly on the location of the cancer and the stage of the disease. At any given time, about half of all patients with malignant cancer are experiencing pain, and two thirds of those with advanced cancer experience pain of such intensity that it adversely affects their sleep, mood, social relations, and activities of daily living.

Iatrogenic Causes

Immunotherapy: It may produce joint or muscle pain

Radiotherapy: It can cause enteritis, fibrosis, myelopathy, bone necrosis, neuropathy or plexopathy.

Chemotherapy: Associated with mucosal inflammation, joint pain, muscle pain, peripheral neuropathy, and abdominal pain due to diarrhea or constipation.

Hormone therapy: It sometimes causes pain flares, targeted therapies, such as trastuzumab and rituximab, which can cause muscle, joint or chest pain; angiogenesis inhibitors like bevacizumab, known to sometimes cause bone pain.

Surgery: It may produce post-operative pain, post-amputation pain or pelvic floor myalgia.

What Are The Symptoms Of Cancer Pain?

The type of pain experienced can help us understand the source that the pain is coming from. For example, pain brought on by nerve damage is frequently described as ‘burning’ or ‘tingling’, whereas internal organ pain is frequently described as a pressure-like sensation.

What Can Kansas Pain Management Do To Treat Cancer Pain?

Kansas Pain Management aims to provide personalized and comprehensive interventional pain management services for all patients. When you come to us for cancer pain, we understand that overcoming pain is a vital step in dealing with and recovering from cancer. The providers at Kansas Pain Management first try to understand the root cause of the pain with thorough evaluations and offers personalized treatment plans that include the most advanced cancer pain management techniques, such as; Continuous Catheter Nerve Blocks, Intrathecal Pain Pumps, Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA), Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS).

Locations we Serve

Kansas Pain Management is a leading interventional pain management services provider in various locations across Kansas, including Overland Park, Lawrence, Leavenworth/Lansing, Kansas City, and Ottawa. So, if you are looking for a reliable pain management service provider in any of these locations, Contact us Today!

Book an appointment here to learn more or call us at 913-339-9437 to schedule now.

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Locations where we have our Offices

Quivira Office

Main Office 10995 Quivira Rd, Overland Park, KS 66210

Phone No. :- 913-339-9437

Lawrence Office

4100 West 6th Ave Lawrence 66049 Kansas USA

Phone No. :- 913-339-9437

Sunflower-Roeland Park

5675 Roe Blvd, suite 210, Roeland Park, KS 66205, USA

Phone No. :- 913-339-9437

Menorah Medical Center

5701 W 119th St, Suite # 102 Overland Park, KS 66209

Phone No. :- 913-339-9437