Jane C. Ballantyne

Jan 19, 2024 | thefactsnewspaper.com | Jane C. Ballantyne

NSAIDs can effectively reduce long-term, or background, pain. Opioids have an appropriate role, too, a topic expert says. People with cancer can feel chronic pain as a result of their disease or their treatments. Dr. Jane Ballantyne wants to clarify a point about cancer-related pain: Opioids, especially morphine, usually are quite effective at reducing it — for a while.

Dec 18, 2023 | acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Christina Abdel Shaheed |Christopher Hayes |Christopher G. Maher |Jane C. Ballantyne

INTRODUCTION Pain is one of the most common and burdensome symptoms associated with cancer,1, 2 affecting up to three of four people with cancer and adversely affecting their quality of life.3, 4 Causes of cancer pain are complex and varied but typically arise from a verifiable lesion that produces pain through direct tissue injury, metastatic disease, and/or cancer-related inflammatory processes.5 In some cases, it may also arise from cancer treatment(s).