Post-Surgery Advice for Mesothelioma

Pain and Its Effects:

• Cancer patients tend to see pain as a sign of weakness. This is not true. Pain is an important component of healing and should be considered so.

• Sometimes the attitude to pain leads patients to compromise on the quality of treatment.

• Pain has not only, physical but psychological and emotional repercussions. Post surgery pain can lead to the following:
  • Anger
  • Loss of sleep
  • Inability to cope
  • Depression
  • Loss of appetite
  • Irritability
  • Withdrawal from social interaction

• Cancer related pain can be treated in about 95% of the cases. Out of these, 85% just require treatments as simple as oral administration of pain relievers.

Other related links:

• Post-Surgery Advice:

  • What Can You Do?

  • Some Myths Cleared

  • Types of Medication

  • Side Effects and Warnings

• FAQ About Mesothelioma Treatment

• Treatment for Pleural Mesothelioma

• Treatment for Peritoneal Mesothelioma

• Treatment for Pericardial Mesothelioma