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General & SystemicSevere
Cancer Pain
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine · General & Systemic
Severe
Severity
Very common — affects the majority of people with advanced cancer
Prevalence
No
Contagious
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Cancer pain most commonly arises from the tumour directly invading
- 2compressing
- 3or stretching nearby bone
- 4nerve
- 5or organ tissue as it grows
- 6or from pressure it places on surrounding structures. It can also result from cancer treatments themselves
- 7including surgical incisions
- 8radiation-induced tissue damage
- 9or chemotherapy-related nerve damage known as peripheral neuropathy. In some cases
- 10pain arises from unrelated conditions coexisting with cancer
- 11such as arthritis
- 12that require separate evaluation.
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