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Find help managing pain

Most people with cancer will not have significant problems with cancer-related pain. But for those who do, controlling pain needs to be a priority. Uncontrolled pain greatly reduces your quality of life, wearing you down and making other issues seem worse.

Our new Pain handbook presents an integrative approach to managing pain, including recommendations from several integrative medical groups and experts. We discuss options in conventional medicine and also self care and complementary approaches such as acupuncture, cannabis, or guided imagery. Often, several approaches may be used together to provide the most relief with the fewest side effects.
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Webinar February 24th, 10-11:30 PST

Easing Cancer Pain and Suffering

Join Thomas Smith, MD, with host Michael Lerner for a conversation about easing cancer pain and suffering. Uncontrolled pain creates unnecessary suffering, but when pain is controlled, quality of life improves dramatically. Compassionate, expert help is available for people with cancer experiencing pain.

Dr. Smith is a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Palliative Medicine for Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture treatment involves stimulating designated points on the body surface with fine needles. It is based on the regulation of energy pathways and circulation within your body.

Acupuncture can improve several cancer-related side effects and symptoms, including pain, anxiety, nausea and vomiting, hot flashes, peripheral neuropathy, and sleep disruption. Evidence shows better markers of immune function—an important body terrain factor related to cancer outcomes—among people with cancer treated with acupuncture.

Acupuncture is recommended by many integrative experts and medical groups in practice guidelines for managing cancer-related symptoms and side effects.

Learn more about acupuncture
Acupuncture is among more than 55 complementary cancer therapies reviewed on the CancerChoices website, with 36 fully reviewed and rated.
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New website content

In addition to our new Pain handbook highlighted above, you can find other new content on the CancerChoices site.

Diindolylmethane (DIM)

DIM is created naturally when you digest cruciferous vegetables, and it’s also a nutritional supplement with possible anticancer effects. DIM also may improve hormone imbalances linked to hormone-related cancers. Read more
 

Quercetin

Quercetin, found in many plant-based foods and available as a supplement, is linked to improved body terrain, and especially lower inflammation. Read more

 

Cancer and the Loss of Anticipation

Cancer survivor and thriver Lindsay McDonell shared a blog post about how there are three big areas that we can base our lives on: the past, the present, and the anticipation of the future. When living with cancer, she finds she focuses on living in the present and clinging to the tiny future of today. Read more

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