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Instructions and help about Daily Pain Diary Many People With Cancer Have Pain

[music] Pain is something that many people with cancer will experience at some point. However, most cancer-related pain can be successfully treated, with the help of your health care team. Pain can be caused by several different things, including the tumor or cancer itself, cancer surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or other systemic therapies. A person with cancer may experience pain from many different sources. The pain could be a result of surgery, we call that post-operative pain. The pain could be a side effect, or toxicity, of one of the drugs or medications we use to treat or cure the cancer, and that may cause a pain, for instance, in the nerves. And we call that neuropathic pain. Or pain could come from actual cancer being inside an organ, such as bones or liver, and so that could really be what we call sometimes visceral pain, or skeletal pain. It's very important that patients talk with their doctor about the pain they are experiencing, and describe their particular ty