Every day cancer scientists around the
globe make progress in our understanding of the basis of cancer, how to prevent
the disease, and how to treat the disease.
Canada plays an important part in this progress.
The Canadian Cancer Society recently
released its top Canadian Cancer Society funded research stories of 2015. The projects range from new tools to study
cancer, new understanding of biological basis disease to new tools to diagnose
and treat cancer to quality of life issues for cancer patients. Check out all
their stories here!
All of the 10 stories are amazing and
intriguing. But today I will highlight one
from our own backyard at the NCIC Cancer Clinical Trials Group in Kingston,
Ontario.
As a scientist, I think of cancer research
in terms of novel treatments and improving patient survival. But there’s another area of cancer research
that physicians and cancer patients care a lot about: cancer pain. As a patient, having to undergo radical
therapy and alter your lifestyle is hard enough. Understanding pain associated with cancer and
managing symptoms is just as an essential component of cancer research.
