Why do cancer patients suffer from body aches at the end? Doctor: Many people think this is wrong!

Some people ask, why do cancer patients have pain all over their body in the end? The subtext of this question is "cancer patients will definitely have pain all over their body in the end", is this really the case? Cancer pain, referred to as cancer pain, has a complete set of treatment standards. As long as you find a regular oncologist and follow the standards, most cancer pain can be relieved or alleviated. The key is to change your mindset and standardize medication. Both are indispensable. Outdated concepts are the biggest obstacle to the treatment of cancer pain.

But the subtext of this question is wrong. Cancer patients will not necessarily have pain all over their body in the end! Why do many people have this idea that cancer patients will have pain all over their body in the late stage? This is obviously a generalization, that is, to generalize a part of the phenomenon seen to the whole. It is undeniable that a considerable number of cancer patients will have pain in the end, but not all patients will have pain.

In fact, many cancer patients do not feel pain in the end, let alone pain all over the body. Many people think that cancer patients will feel pain all over the body in the end. One reason is, as mentioned before, they generalize from some patients to all patients. Another reason is that some people just imagine it out of thin air. In many people's minds, having cancer means excruciating pain, and they take it for granted that there will be pain here and there, and it will be unbearable.

The truth is that some patients have pain as the main symptom, but only some patients. Other patients have abdominal distension, or chest tightness, shortness of breath, and difficulty in breathing. Some patients have difficulty swallowing, some have dizziness, some have difficulty urinating and defecating, some have nausea and vomiting, some have diarrhea, and some have anorexia, fatigue, etc. Some also have mental symptoms. These symptoms themselves are not special, and other non-cancer patients may also have these symptoms. But one of the most important characteristics of cancer patients experiencing these discomforts is that if the cancer itself is not controlled, then these symptoms will persist and are difficult to relieve. Therefore, in the end, if cancer patients have these uncomfortable manifestations, they can only be treated to a limited extent, and most of them are difficult to relieve, because the root cause of these discomforts is cancer, and cancer is not controlled (in the end, it means that cancer treatment has failed), so naturally these symptoms are difficult to relieve. To put it bluntly, many times we can only watch the patient feel uncomfortable, and what we can do is very limited, which is why euthanasia has been advocated. But there is an exception, that is pain, because pain can be relieved by drugs, and morphine-like sustained-release drugs can be increased without a cap until the patient's pain is relieved or reduced. Of course, even so, there are still some patients with intractable pain, which is more difficult to deal with. But the reality is that many patients who could have their pain relieved or alleviated are afraid to take medication or increase the dosage due to the outdated ideas of the patients themselves, their families, or even the doctors, which leads to unnecessary pain. This is not right.

Finally, for cancer patients who have pain, why do they feel pain while others do not? The cause of cancer is nothing more than: the tumor is not controlled, invading, destroying or compressing nerves, lymphatic vessels, blood vessels, periosteum, hollow organs, etc., causing pain. If there is a "nerve", if it is invaded, destroyed or compressed, there will be pain. This is easy to understand.