Pain Control: Support for People with Cancer

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This booklet is only one of many free booklets for people with cancer. Here are some others you and your loved ones may find useful:

Biological Therapy: Treatments That Use Your Immune System To Fight Cancer
Chemotherapy and You ¹
Coping With Advanced Cancer ²
Eating Hints for Cancer Patients ³
If You Have Cancer: What You Should Know About Clinical Trials
Radiation Therapy and You ⁴
Taking Time ⁵
Thinking About Complementary and Alternative Medicine ⁶
When Cancer Returns ⁷
When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer ⁸
When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer ⁹
When Your Parent Has Cancer ¹⁰

These free booklets are available from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). NCI is a Federal agency that is part of the National Institutes of Health. To order or download, call 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) or visit www.cancer.gov. (See Resources ¹¹ for more resources.)

For information about your specific type of cancer, see NCI's Physican Data Query (PDQ®) ¹² database.

Product or brand names that appear in this booklet are for example only. The U.S. Government does not endorse any specific product or brand. If products or brands are not mentioned, it does not mean or imply that they are not satisfactory.

Table of Links

¹ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/chemotherapy-and-you

² http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/advancedcancer

³ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/eatinghints

⁴ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/radiation-therapy-and-you

⁵ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/takingtime

⁶ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/thinking-about-CAM

⁷ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/When-Cancer-Returns

⁸ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/When-Someone-You-Love-Is-Treated

⁹ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/When-Someone-You-Love-Has-Advanced-Cancer

¹⁰ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/When-Your-Parent-Has-Cancer-Guide-for-Teens

¹¹ http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/paincontrol/page12

¹² http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq