http://www.medindia.net/healthnews/Cancer-Pain-news.asp Medindia largest health website in india. en-us Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:48:24 GMT http://www.medindia.net/news/cancer-pain-reduced-through-psychosocial-interventions-96901-1.htm Psychosocial interventions can reduce cancer patients' pain severity, researchers who analyzed past studies of cancer-related pain reduction have found. Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Centre, who teamed with colleagues at five universities around the United States, also found that certain psychosocial interventions provide better pain management and are effective in reducing the degree to which pain related to cancer and its treatment interferes with patients' lives. "Pain is one ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/cancer-pain-reduced-through-psychosocial-interventions-96901-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/severe-cancer-pain-can-be-combated-by-mouth-spray-developed-from-marijuana-96546-1.htm A mouth spray has been developed from key ingredients of marijuana to treat severe cancer pain by a British pharmaceutical company. GW Pharmaceuticals has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve Sativex, the world's first prescription drug developed from marijuana's two best known psychoactive ingredients, Delta-9 THC and cannabinoids. The company is in advanced clinical trials to the get the spray approved in the United States as treatment for severe cancer pain, ABC news reported....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/severe-cancer-pain-can-be-combated-by-mouth-spray-developed-from-marijuana-96546-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Identification-and-Management-of-Cancer-Pain-Still-Unresolved-91471-1.htm Today, the results from a European Survey of Oncology Nurse Breakthrough Cancer Pain Practices were presented for the first time at The European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm. The survey was performed for the Breakthrough Cancer Pain Initiative, a European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) working group. BLack of pain assessment tool leads to sub-optimal treatment /BThe survey which collected 1,164 completed responses among nurses from 12 European countries is the first ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Identification-and-Management-of-Cancer-Pain-Still-Unresolved-91471-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/In-Small-Trial-Novel-Gene-Therapy-for-Cancer-Pain-Proves-Successful-83533-1.htm A novel gene therapy treatment successfully reduced pain symptoms in patients with cancer pain, researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology have reported. They showed that the novel agent NP2 is safe, well-tolerated and might provide a substantial analgesic effect. NP2 is a gene transfer vector that expresses the naturally-occurring opioid peptide enkephalin. In preclinical work in animals, David Fink, chair of the Department of Neurology and his colleagues, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/In-Small-Trial-Novel-Gene-Therapy-for-Cancer-Pain-Proves-Successful-83533-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Device-Reduces-Cancer-Pain-82308-1.htm WARP 75, a device that was developed for NASA to experiment with plant growth in space, has been effective in reducing pain resulting from chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The device developed by Quantum Devices, of Barneveld, Wisconsin was tested in a two-year clinical trial funded by NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. before it was adjudged to be appropriate in treating pain related to oral mucositis, that is an aftermath of different ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/New-Device-Reduces-Cancer-Pain-82308-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Cancer-Pain-Reduced-By-Scenes-of-Nature-75679-1.htm Experts has suggested that showing relaxing pictures of idyllic scenes and playing out relaxing sounds at a cancer patient's bed can reduce the feeling of pain. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States set up a series of tests analysing patients undergoing bone marrow aspiration and biopsy (BMAB) - known to be a particularly painful form of cancer treatment. However, the researchers believe they have come up with a cheap, inexpensive way of making painful procedures like BMAB more bearable....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Cancer-Pain-Reduced-By-Scenes-of-Nature-75679-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Cancer-Pain-Could-be-Relieved-by-New-Drugs-70370-1.htm Research indicates that new drugs being developed could be the answer to millions of cancer patients who suffer from pain during the illness. Professors David Lambert and David Rowbotham at the University of Leicester, as well as Doctors Guerrini, Calo and Professor Salvadori from the University of Ferrara in Italy have collaborated to develop new drugs which have the potential to relieve cancer pain without causing many of the side effects of current pain-treatments like morphine....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Cancer-Pain-Could-be-Relieved-by-New-Drugs-70370-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Survey-Show-Devastating-Impact-of-Living-With-Breakthrough-Cancer-Pain-57945-1.htm The first results of the first European survey of cancer patients' experience of breakthrough pain were presented today at the 6th congress of the European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain (EFIC). Previous surveys have looked at the overall management of pain in cancer patients but this is the first international study to look in detail at Breakthrough Cancer Pain (BTCP) from a patient perspective. These results for the first 200 patients from the UK, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Survey-Show-Devastating-Impact-of-Living-With-Breakthrough-Cancer-Pain-57945-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Soon-an-Effective-Treatment-for-Cancer-Pain-53691-1.htm New approaches to the development and treatment of the debilitating pain suffered by cancer patients have been developed by researchers at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of Heidelberg. Professor Dr. Rohini Kuner and colleagues found two possible reasons for such pain- tumours release two signal substances that make nerve cells especially sensitive and enhance tumour growth. In animal tests, when the researchers blocked the effect of the signal substances on the nerve cells, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Soon-an-Effective-Treatment-for-Cancer-Pain-53691-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Blocking-Tumour-Molecule-Could-Help-Ease-Cancer-Pain-52895-1.htm Cancer pain could be considerably alleviated by blocking a specific type of hormone-like molecule produced by tumours, German scientists say. The team showed that the molecules make nerve endings grow in nearby tissue, causing an acute sensation of pain. The molecules highlighted in the study were known to play a role in the development of blood cells in the bone marrow. But this is the first time they have also been shown to have a role in causing pain. The findings of the Heidelberg University team are published in Nature Medicine....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Blocking-Tumour-Molecule-Could-Help-Ease-Cancer-Pain-52895-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Race-Plays-Major-Role-in-Severe-Metastatic-Breast-Cancer-Pain-29880-1.htm A new study has found that racial differences play a role in the risk of pain related to metastatic breast cancer. It was found, in an analysis conducted by Dr. Liana Castel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues, that non-whites experience poorer pain control among women with this disease. Studies done showed that chronic or recurrent pain affects 30 percent of all cancer patients and 60 to 90 percent of patients with advanced cancer. Pain can be caused by ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Race-Plays-Major-Role-in-Severe-Metastatic-Breast-Cancer-Pain-29880-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=1952 http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=1952