Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ provides information, coping strategies and tools to help cancer patients and their caregivers understand the basics of pain management and better communicate with their doctors. This CD-ROM has personal stories, medication fact sheets, reporting & management tools and tips on how to work with your medical team.  Learn more about cancer pain and what you can do by reviewing the Spotlight on Cancer Pain section of our website.

• Describe Your Pain

• Opioid Tip Sheet (PDF)

• Managing the Side Effects of Opioids (Flash)

• Video: Patrick Talks about Pain Management & Side Effects New!

• Addiction Basics

• Pain & Addiction (PDF)

• Cancer Pain Facts (PDF)

• Cancer Pain Links & Resources

HealthMark Multimedia, in partnership with the American Pain Foundation, produced the award-winning Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™, an interactive CD to help cancer patients and caregivers understand and manage pain. It provides information on important aspects of cancer pain management, including possible causes of pain, the importance of assessing and describing pain, use of medications, concerns patients have regarding addiction to opioids and complementary methods of pain management. It also features personal stories from patients and their loved ones, printable topic fact sheets, medication and side effects medications, interactive pain tools, and a progressive relaxation exercise. To view a demo, try a tool or buy the CD, please visit the HealthMark Multimedia website. Please include promotion code - APF - in the promotion code field when placing an order so that a portion of the sale will be credited to the American Pain Foundation.

The content of the Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ CD was produced by HealthMark Multimedia, LLC in partnership with the American Pain Foundation. Part of the content of this website section was adapted from the Cancer Pain: Your Guide to Relief™ CD. HealthMark and APF are solely responsible for the content, and maintain editorial control, of all materials and publications they produce. We gratefully acknowledge those who support our work. This project was underwritten by an educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline