Cancer Pain Management And Living Meaningfully | Sandra H. Sacks, MD, MEd

Sandra H. Sacks, MD, MEd

UCLA Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management
Dec 6, 2019
Cancer Support Community, West LA

Primary Office
UCLA Santa Monica Hematology/Oncology
2020 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 600
Santa Monica, California 90404

Secondary Office
UCLA Encino Hematology/Oncology
15503 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 150
Encino, California 91436

[westfield]

My heart goes out to anyone who is experiencing cancer. God bless you and may God heal you.

[Critical-Thinker]

From 2010 to 2020 terminal cancer pain prescriptions were cut by 34% while during the same period ER admissions by that same patient group increased by 50%. Where I live in Texas while the state maintains their new laws do not affect chronic or cancer pain patients but as a retired Pharmacist with a back injury and advanced Prostate cancer I can tell you that's not true. The county DA's here are very aggressive and have everyone scared to death. Neither Methodist Hospital or Texas Oncology will prescribe or use any opioids for anyone. In my opinion, after watching the opioid crisis from the beginning this is all political because these institutions think they're gonna earn brownie for reducing the rx count but experience tells me they will not. Failing to treat terminal cancer patients along the NCCN guidelines is immoral and unethical and in my opinion should be illegal. Let's face it, doctors killed 60, 000 people. Then they made medical errors the 3rd leading cause of death, the highest error rate in the world and now they want to deny grandma pain relief on her death bed. It's really time for a complete overhaul of our country's medical system.

[joeestes]

I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer a couple months ago and the pain Iam having is just horrible. I just finished my radiation therapy treatments last week and i start chemotherapy this week. My cancer is stage four and inoperable.

[Abdulaziz-ietg]

I have a presentation about palliative care and pain management, I found this lecture very informative
thanks for sharing

[randyquinawayan]

Hi Dr Sandra. My mother is at stage4 cancer.. She's been taking morphine for almost 5 months and the pain she really can't bear.

[attirom]

Ive done chemo and radion on 2019..but now january 2022 my pain come back..sometimes can't sleep

[maryberon]

Gee, a four step ladder.
I cant wait as i have stage 4 ovarian cancer or peritoneal carcinoma. Why cant they just give final pain relief? Doctors want to treat untreatable conditions. I hate the whole medical establishment.

[faithharris]

My pain doctor is more concerned about needing Percocet than she is controlling my actual pain. Cancer patients are the ones who suffer in the end. With cancer, who cares if we depend on it. We have cancer. Pain causes a PQL!!

[picornav]

When she was asked about cannabis she said there was not enough research but coffee enema, just let your doctor know 😂