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Controlling Pain
Eliot S. Krames, MD, FACPM, Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Malin Dollinger, MD
Adapted for the Canadian edition by David Warr, MD
"Pain is an even more terrible lord of mankind than
even death itself."
— Albert Schweitzer
Fear of pain is a large part of any patient's fear
of cancer. Sixty to 90 percent of people with
advanced cancer develop pain severe enough
that they need some type of pain-relieving
therapy, so this is a realistic concern. But not
all cancers produce pain equally, and some
cancers, even when advanced, may not cause
pain at all. Cancers involving bone, either directly
or through spread, or the abdomen are usually