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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 458481" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Sometimes the chemo and/or radiation is to take the pressure off some particular point to reduce the pain - my grandmother had this, a good family friend just went that route - the cancer in the lungs and bone was killing him, but the pain in his back was beyond pain-medications-control... radiation set that issue back far enough that he could be made comfortable.</p><p></p><p>Not sure if this is the same in the US as Canada, but here - hospitals and MDs can give same pain control as palliative care... once you have been certified as "terminal". This means they will take no extraordinary measures to keep you alive, but will do whatever is possible to make you comfortable. They have to stop active treatment first. (Using radiation to kill pain is not active treatment.)</p><p></p><p>{{hugs}} and thoughts... for you too!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 458481, member: 11791"] Sometimes the chemo and/or radiation is to take the pressure off some particular point to reduce the pain - my grandmother had this, a good family friend just went that route - the cancer in the lungs and bone was killing him, but the pain in his back was beyond pain-medications-control... radiation set that issue back far enough that he could be made comfortable. Not sure if this is the same in the US as Canada, but here - hospitals and MDs can give same pain control as palliative care... once you have been certified as "terminal". This means they will take no extraordinary measures to keep you alive, but will do whatever is possible to make you comfortable. They have to stop active treatment first. (Using radiation to kill pain is not active treatment.) {{hugs}} and thoughts... for you too! [/QUOTE]
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