When lung cancer spreads to the spine—in about 19% of spinal metastasis—pain can occur in the back. If a nerve is involved, you might also experience a sharp, shooting pain that travels ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Chemotherapy has been known to cause damage to peripheral nerves, and sometimes the pain is chronic and severe enough that chemotherapy doses are reduced or discontinued. But prior research has not ...

Patient was not fit for Docetaxel therapy and he was put on monthly Denosumab injection 120 mg/1 syringe, and Abiraterone ...

The risk for lung cancer is especially high among those with rheumatoid arthritis who also have interstitial lung disease. A study of Veterans Health Administration patients with rheumatoid arthritis ...

As systemic cancer treatments advance and the diagnosis of cancer progresses to a chronic disease state, there is an increasing need for focal treatments to provide both a palliative pain measure and ...

Ice packs got me moving again, but pain remained for weeks. In October, Doctors' scans revealed that not only did I have a cancer mass in my lung, but it had spread to my spine. My back locked ...