Pain and Palliative care Support for the Cancer patients
Now a day it is widely advertised all the time “that every cancer is curable “. But actually tumour/cancer up to a certain stage is curable either through surgery, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy. When cancer is in an advanced stage, then we have to accept the fact that it will not curable. And most importantly we have to accept the fact “Death is inevitable”.But still, we doctors have a role in the terminal stage of Cancer. Pain and palliative Care have widely popular in the western world. Still less popularised in the Indian subcontinent. Pain and Palliative Care therapy provide dignity to terminally ill patients suffering from cancer. Pain and Palliative Care therapy may not increase the number of days one can live but it added quality of life in the day. Patients could spend the last few of their life with their family members peacefully. Nobody wants to die after diagnosis of Cancer, being separated from their family, inside the ICU with a tube inside his/her mouth. We, Spine, Pain, and palliative care and palliative care specialists provide quality life in cancer patients and add value to their lives.
One 60-year-old male Cancer patient of the pancreatic tail with extensive metastasis in the surrounding tissue was admitted with severe back pain radiating to the abdomen.
He had spent sleepless nights for the last one month due to pain.
Surgery cannot be performed due to the advanced stage of cancer. But we provided palliative care supports including managing his unbearable pain by Splanchnic Nerve Radiofrequency ablation.
On the same day, the patient slept at night after one month. So, let's live today even if you are suffering from cancer or a similar illness and peacefully sleep today. We, Pain and Palliative care specialist doctors are here to reduce your suffering.