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Improving pain management in cancer patients Abstract Pain is often the most feared aspect of cancer. Therefore, pain management is an ongoing and important issue, which concerns many patients and health professionals alike. Many misbeliefs from health professionals and patients, such as "pain is an unmanageable and inevitable feature of advanced cancer" or "opioids cause addiction" have led, and are still leading to ineffective pain management that causes unnecessary suffering and reduces quality of life. Recent advances in the understanding of pain and pain management are shifting the trend from unnecessary suffering and reduced quality of life to effectively controlling pain in up to 90% of cancer patients. New treatment options that have been developed to control pain effectively do not only include new technologies and advances in pharmacology but also ways of caring for the cancer patient and changes in the whole health care sector. Some major breakthroughs in pain management...

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