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Pietropaolo V. In the face of cancer. CMAJ. 2009 Mar 17;180(6):645-6. PMID: 19289813

Photosensitive, a collective of photographers using photography as a vehicle for social change, and the Canadian Cancer Society cosponsored this online gallery and traveling exhibition of more than 400 photographs (and growing) of people with cancer.

From the review by Vincenzo Pietropaolo:

“The photographs are mostly portraits of people who look just like you and me, except that that they have physical and/or psychological scars from the experience of having lived with, through and in spite of myriad forms of cancer. The people portrayed are patients, survivors, health care workers, friends — in short, what can be loosely called the “cancer community.” A short and often poignant descriptive caption, usually identifying the subjects, accompanies each picture."

View the online gallery.

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Sun V, Borneman T, Piper B, Koczywas M, Ferrell B. Barriers to pain assessment and management in cancer survivorship. J Cancer Surviv. 2008 Mar;2(1):65-71. Epub 2008 Feb 15. PMID: 18648988

In just one example of their review of pain and cancer survivorship, about half of mastectomy patients suffer chronic pain, according to researchers at City of Hope and Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center. The authors discuss three representative cases, drawn from a National Cancer Institute-funded study.

From the abstract:

"Across all three case presentations, barriers such as fear of side effects from pain medications, fear of addiction, lack of professional knowledge of the basic principles of pain management, and lack of timely access to pain medications due to reimbursement issues are prevalent in cancer survivorship.."

The article includes a brief list of resources in chronic pain, and an even more useful list of references.

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