The injection helps the cancer patient get rid of pain

QUANG NINH: A 45-year-old patient with end-stage liver cancer, a weakened state, persistent pain, large tumor growth, and surrounding organs.

In the last two months, the patient had high fever, insomnia at night, poor diet, and total physical and mental collapse. Family members taken to Bai Chay General Hospital for treatment, July 2.

Doctor Le Tien Hung, Deputy Head of the Diagnostic Imaging Department, performed the technique of eliminating the visceral plexus, relieving the pain of patients.

Celiac Plexus is a large nerve plexus in the abdominal cavity, the heart's transitional pain-relieving center organs such as the pancreas, stomach, esophagus, and liver. , adrenals...

Patients do not need anesthesia. Doctors inject alcohol completely to destroy the visceral ganglia, under the guidance of computerized tomography. Requiring a needle to poke the tangle of organs must be absolutely accurate, avoid damaging the liver, organs, puncturing organs or blood vessels during the intervention.

Immediately after the intervention, the patient was relieved of pain, was able to sleep, ate well again and was discharged after 24 hours.

The process of implementing interventions to kill visceral plexus. The doctor will determine exactly the intervention pathway under the guidance of computerized tomography. Photo: Hospital provided

Dr. Hung said that eliminating the visceral plexus is a humane method of relief for end-stage cancer patients when all treatments are no longer effective. This method helps people with liver, pancreatic, stomach, kidney cancer ... stop the illness, bring about a healthy state of mind and spirit, improve the effectiveness of treatment, extend the life time . Only one injection to kill the tangle, the patient will be permanently pain free.

According to medical research, pain is a common clinical symptom in cancer patients. In particular, 50% of patients with pain at the time of diagnosis, 65-68% of patients in advanced stage pain. Causes of pain can be due to tumors, cancer invading bone, nerves, software, organs ... Large tumors squeeze into organs, nerve position causing severe and increasing feelings of pain. persistent.

Pain from malignant cancer leads to chronic insomnia, anxiety, sadness, depression, deterioration of quality of life, activities, and physical exhaustion leading to premature death. The doctor said, patients often resort to morphine - an addictive analgesic to relieve the pain but in the long run will have to increase the dose, the analgesic effect of the drug will be shortened, the patient will still have to suffer recur pain pain.

Bai Chay Hospital is one of the few provincial units applying pain relief by this method.