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You Don't Have to Suffer: A Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain for Patients and Their Families
enlarge	Authors: Susan S. Lang, Richard B. Patt Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Category: Book List Price: ~~$37.95~~ Buy Used: $0.25 You Save: $37.70 (99%) New (14) Used (30) from $0.25 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 384 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 ISBN: 0195084195 Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196994 EAN: 9780195084191 ASIN: 0195084195 Publication Date: June 1, 1995 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Our feedback rating says it all: Five star service and fast delivery! We've shipped four million items to happy customers, and have one MILLION unique items ready to ship today!

Editorial Reviews: Product Description On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines. That report revealed that pain is frequently undertreated, and that relief is not only possible for most patients, but actually aids in recovery. For many cancer victims, the agency's guidelines offered new hope; for Dr. Richard B. Patt and coauthor Susan S. Lang, it was a resounding vindication of the findings they set forth in You Don't Have to Suffer.br Written by one of the country's leading cancer pain experts and science writer Lang, You Don't Have to Suffer provides an invaluable, no-nonsense handbook for anyone with cancer, for anyone caring for a loved one with cancer, and for the doctors and nurses who treat these patients. The authors first illuminate the reasons why patients are so often undermedicated, including unfounded fears of addiction, patients thinking they need to tough it out, time-consuming paperwork for doctors who prescribe narcotics, and laws that fail to distinguish between drug abuse and the legitimate employment of narcotics. In a careful argument now taken up by the AHCPR's guidelines, Lang and Patt demonstrate that properly medicated patients are better able to resume active lives and marshall strength to fight their disease--while those in chronic pain not only suffer, but also may jeopardize their potential for recovery.br You Don't Have to Suffer explores all the pain-relieving options available in the modern medical arsenal--from drugs and high-tech medical procedures to psychological and cognitive techniques and home nursing tips to make a patient more comfortable. Detailed chapters discuss the medications that can fight cancer pain or relieve the undesirable side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and other cancer treatments; anaesthetic and neurosurgical options for pain that has not responded well to simpler techniques; ways to prevent or relieve constipation, nausea, drowsiness, and other complaints of cancer patients; and mind/body techniques and other ways of coping with depression and various psychological symptoms that contribute to the relief of suffering.br Pulling together a wealth of long-needed information on the latest medical advances, You Don't Have To Suffer is a volume for the growing numbers of patients, family members, and health-care professionals who are determined to relieve needless cancer pain.

Customer Reviews: "You Don't Have to Suffer" November 10, 2004 State of the art review of the techniques for dealing with chronic and acute pain. Clear, consise, yet thorough examinations of the various treatments for acute and chronic pain. Extensively annotated so that you can dig deeper. Richard Patt is a doctor who rises to the level of physician unlike a major sector of the medical community which seems more concerned with their real estate investments than their patients. Twenty years from now the treatments advocated in this guide will be "best practices" for everyone who suffers physical pain not just for the rich, the lucky, and the committed as the vast majority of pain management is today. Invaluable guide to dealing with cancer pain August 30, 2001 This book was enormously valuable to me in helping my father through his final illness. My deepest thanks to the authors and the publisher! Hot Stuff! December 26, 1998 1 out of 2 found this review helpful Readers should know that the second author of this valuable text can no longer be reached at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and is best reached at RPatt@cancerpain.org. pThanks you best wishes,pRP Every person with severe pain needs this book! April 3, 1997 1 out of 1 found this review helpful You Don't Have to Suffer is one of the most helpful, honest, clearly written books on the management of long-term, severe pain that I have ever read. Every cancer patient who has or fears having pain needs to own and read this book. It is also appropriate and helpful for people with severely painful, progressive conditions like endometriosis, sickle-cell disease, lupus, or any painful condition that is being treated with narcotic medications.pThe clear and thorough writing in this book helped me to understand the difference between drug tollerance and drug addiction, to know why my doctors were uncomfortable prescribing appropriately strong medication, and gave me the ammunition and courage I needed to go to a pain clinic and get treatment to control my pain and allow me to live my life.

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