What Type Of Pain Do Cancer Victims Feel?

I have no doubt it is very painfull but what does the pain stem from, please I understand how horrible it must be to know that you have cancer but where does the physical pain come from?


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11 Responses to “What Type Of Pain Do Cancer Victims Feel?”

  1. It really depends on the type of cancer, and where it is. Some people don’t even know it’s there until it has spread to different organs, and sometimes they feel it right away. Cancer is essentially mutated cells, that grow irregularly. So, the pain is usually due to pressure on certain nerves, or organs that may be displaced, or compromised by the mutated (cancer) cells. I hope that gives you something to work with.

  2. It actually depends on what type of cancer you have. Remember cancer is a abnormal growth of tissues, so depending on where this tissues grows, the pain then comes where ever the normal body process gets hampered. I hope that gives you a small insight…

  3. Many cancer patients do not feel significant pain initially; what usually happens is the tumor(s) grow so big they begin to put pressure on neighboring organs/tissues, or interfere with the normal flow of bodily fluids.
    Then it hurts!

  4. It really depends on the type of cancer. Some cancers aren’t that painful…others are excrutiating. Mostly it depends on what organs or tissue the cancer is infringing upon. It also depends on the size of the cancer. In the early stages, it may not be painful…but later it is.

  5. My wife’s cancer had spread to her brain. Her oncologist explained that even a relatively small tumor causes a tremendous pressure. The result is extreme pain.

  6. I am a cancer patient. I have bone marrow cancer which thins my bones and plasma cell Leukemia which makes me tired and bleed more than someone normal. My bones hurt because the cancer thins them. Sometimes it is severe, sometimes I get good days….either way…I am ALIVE.

  7. My dad has prostate cancer that has spread all over his body and in his bones. It makes him have bone pain and the medicine makes him weak which also makes him hurt. Plus they say depression is physical and that is very true. If you are sad and not feeling good, your body’s not going to feel good either.

  8. I had it in the colon and had severe pains in the bowel=got rid of that=now the cancer is in my liver,it pains sometimes,but not severely ,so I have decided to just let nature take its course

  9. Not all cancer patients have pain…. But heres something I found online about it:
    Breakthrough cancer pain
    Many people with chronic cancer-related pain experience intermittent flares of pain that can occur even though a person is taking analgesic medications on a fixed schedule for pain control. These severe flares of pain are called breakthrough pain because the pain “breaks through” the regular pain medication. About one-half to two thirds of patients with chronic cancer-related pain also experience episodes of breakthrough cancer pain (Portenoy RK and Hagen NA, Pain 1990;41:273-281). . If you take a prescription pain medicine for cancer pain on a fixed schedule and you also have occasional flares of intense pain, you may be experiencing breakthrough cancer pain.

  10. My mom had cervix cancer and she wanted to be shot somedays just to end the pain. however she faught it and she won!!

  11. No one can answer that question. It’s different for everyone who suffers from cancer. Some have higher pain limits than others. You can’t say where it comes from, specifically. It just happens.

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