We'll provide a friendly place to meet and a shelter from adversity. Most patients with advanced cancer experience pain during the course of their disease.
Unrelieved pain can significantly diminish the patient's quality of life.
Cancer pain may be acute or chronic. Acute pain generally results from tissue damage and is of limited duration. Once the cause of pain has been identified, it can be successfully treated and is often completely eliminated. Chronic pain, on the other hand, is persistent, usually greater than three months in duration. Because the cause of chronic pain cannot be altered, the nervous adapts and may cause depression, anxiety and insomnia.