Patients with lung cancer who are experiencing pain should choose the appropriate treatment based on the degree of pain, the location of the pain, and the triggers of the pain.
Patients with lung cancer who experience pain should first consider it to be due to pain from the incision after surgery. The pain can be resolved with simple painkillers, but it can last for a long time, even up to a year, so patients need to be prepared.
Patients with lung cancer may also have pain caused by bone metastases from lung cancer, which is often so severe that it requires advanced pain medications, such as morphine and other strong analgesics, to manage.
As lung cancer progresses, many patients develop meningeal metastases, a classic manifestation of which is severe meningeal irritation pain, for which there is no good relief.