In fact, almost every member that has died, died of cancer. The youngest so far has been my first cousin who died of cancer at about age 50. My mother and her family died from various forms of cancer at home. I consider myself an expert on terminally ill cancer patients after holding the hands of many people dying from this painful crippling disease at home for six months at a time. The medications for pain seem to have remained the same for the past twenty years.
Radiation seems to cause as much pain as it does relieve.
Codeine, Percocet, and other pain-relieving pills help until the final stages, then morphine shots seem to be the final solace to a dying human. I had the fortune of knowing and assisting a very close friend dying of cancer who was open to non-traditional approaches. She first tried pot but did not like it because she had never smoked it or anything else before and she was afraid of what other people would think. She said she was in terrible pain and the Percocet pills were not helping. So we took some together, a small amount to be careful.