Preventing and fighting pain
Many people with metastatic breast cancer are afraid of pain, or have pain. How they experience these pain complaints is very personal. Not only how the pain feels, but also at what point in the disease process this pain occurs. In this video, anesthesiologist Kees Besse talks about preventing and combating pain in metastatic breast cancer.
From his position as anesthesiologist in the Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Kees Besse mainly focuses on pain relief in cancer patients. In this video by the Breast Cancer Association of the Netherlands, he discusses the options for pain management (palliative care) when anti-cancer therapy is no longer possible or desired, and he discusses the latest developments in pain management in metastatic breast cancer.
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