MCPI Home Committed to making cancer pain relief a reality for all people in Maine. The Facts There are one million new cancer patients in the US each year, half of whom will die.
Many cancer patients have significant pain, which is often needlessly unrelieved.
This inadequately treated pain destroys the quality of life for these people. History Began July 1993. Modeled after the highly effective Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative, which began in the 1980's. Comprised of a multidisciplinary group of health care professionsl, consumers and other interested persons. Initially supported by the Maine Hospice Couincil and the Bingham Consortium for Health Research.