Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, located on Park Avenue South in Manhattan, New York and with an office in Millburn, New Jersey is a pain treatment and pain management centre at the forefront of advanced pain therapies for cancer pain.

Over a third of patients being treated for cancer have pain, and each patient’s cancer pain is unique. Thus, each patient’s pain management plan must be carefully designed and managed. Cancer pain is very treatable and can be relieved. For those with pain due to their cancer there are many different kinds of medicines, cancer medications, ways to receive the medicine, and nonmedicine methods that can relieve the cancer pain you may have.

The pain management specialists of Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine can pain management will provide you with an accurate diagnosis of the cause and type of pain you have. Our pain management doctors provide broad symptom pain management for patients at every stage of cancer treatment.  Cancer pain can be managed effectively in most patients with cancer or with a history of cancer. An accurate diagnosis of the cause and type of pain is key to finding the most effective treatment.

A very popular type of cancer pain relief is called injectable pain management. Most injections use a tube or needle to place medicine directly into the body. Types of injection cancer pain tratments include:

Subcutaneous Pain Treatment - medicine is placed just under the skin using a small needle.
Intravenous Pain Treatment - medicine is placed directly into a vein through a needle that stays in the vein. This method includes a type of pain management called patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). PCA lets patients adjust how much medicine they receive according to their level of pain.
Epidural or Intrathecal Pain Tratment - medicine is placed directly into the cancer using a small tube. Most of these injections give pain relief that lasts for many hours.
Subdermal and intramuscular - commonly known as "shots," these injections are placed more deeply into the skin or muscle using a needle.

Managing your cancer pain is part of the overall treatment for cancer.

Many pharmaceutical companies have programs to provide prescription medications to cancer patients who cannot afford to pain for them. Most programs require your physician to make the contact regarding the medication. There are two web sites that list companies who offer this assistance:

http://pain.com/top/top_drugassistanceprogram.cfm 
http://www.phrma.org/patients/index.html

If you need your cancer pain condition  diagnosed, or are seeking a cancer pain management specialists, the cancer pain management doctors of the Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine of Manhattan, New York and Millburn, New Jersey would be happy to see you for a consultation and help you learn about the treatment options available to you.