Vydehi Cancer Center

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PAIN & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Departments

Opening Hours

Mon to Sat
9.00AM to 6.00PM
Sunday
9.00AM to 01.00PM

Palliative care aims to improve quality of life and relieve suffering for patients with advanced cancersand those close to them by specifically addressing communication, symptom management, coordination of care, psychosocial and spiritual realms, grief and bereavement support, and legal and ethical concerns. At Vydehi Cancer Center, a dedicated team of doctors’with a holistic approachdeal with Cancer Pain and also Palliation, addressing all the issues mentioned above. Pain in cancer patients, not only the terminally ill, but also pain due to cancer treatment per se, are dealt with in a ‘step ladder fashion’. Cancer pain most often requires opiod analgesics, and Vydehi Cancer Center is one of the few centers approved to dispense thesemedications to those who require it. Pain due to spinal cord compression, cancer spread to bones, phantom pain, chemotherapyinduced peripheral neuropathy, pain due to nerve entrapment are a few of the common types of pain addressed in a multidisciplinary fashion.

Image guided nerve plexus blocks are an essential component of multidisciplinary approach to cancer pain managementand a team of intervention radiation oncologists, experienced in the same administer it.