Drug Eases Bone Cancer Pain in Mice
By Nathan Seppa
People with bone cancer say the pain they feel is worse than any other they’ve ever encountered. Pain becomes steady with time, and when a person simply moves a body part, a piercing pain sometimes interrupts the dull ache. It’s not uncommon for such breakthrough pain to arise from a mild touch to a person’s skin.
“It’s like a nail through the bone,” one patient told Patrick W. Mantyh, a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.