Pain Management

Pain Management

by Blood Cancer United

This booklet touches upon the different types of pain you may experience with your diagnosis and treatment of a blood cancer, such as leukemia (ALL, AML, CLL, CML), lymphoma (NHL, HL), or multiple myeloma. It explains how to manage the pain and discusses the possible causes, side effects of common blood cancer treatments, medications for pain, how it can be assessed on your own and by a healthcare provider, how to keep track of it, non-drug treatments for pain, pain or palliative care specialists, and more. It also includes a list of questions to ask your healthcare team about pain.

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