Top Pain Management Centers in Fort Worth: Bone Pain

As one of the top pain management centers in Fort Worth, we have chosen to focus our practice on the use of advanced interventional radiology (IR) procedures to treat cancer. One aspect of that treatment is helping patients to manage pain, especially when cancer cells metastasize and travel from the site of the primary cancer to other areas of the body. One of the most problematic – and most painful – of these metastases is when tumors begin to form in bone tissue. This can result in intense levels of "bone pain" that are often not relieved by normal analgesic (pain relief) methods.

Fortunately, the interventional oncology specialists in Dallas at MTV IR have developed IR procedures that can greatly relieve pain and suffering in patients with bone metastases, allowing them to more easily manage the pain and live a more normal lifestyle while they are being treated for their primary cancer.

How IR treatment of bone metastases can help

To understand why cancer that has metastasized to bony areas is so painful, you need to know how those secondary tumors affect the bones they move to. The metastatic cancer cells create substances that make the bones weaker, and at the same time they make them hard and brittle, and thus more prone to breakage. This process (called sclerosis), exposes and irritates nerve endings in the affected bone tissue, sending pain signals to the brain that are often so intense that they are not blocked or alleviated by even the most powerful opioid medications.

What doctors from one of the best cancer treatment centers in Dallas can do to help is use advanced, state-of-the-art interventional radiology procedures to insert a probe directly into the metastatic tumors themselves. First, MTV IR radiologists use X-ray fluoroscopy or CT scans to precisely guide a small needle or catheter into place. Next, they destroy the tumors using heat (radiofrequency ablation), extreme cold (cryoablation), electrical current (microwave ablation), or chemicals (chemoembolization). These procedures also kill the nerve endings in the area that transmit pain to the brain, and thus relieve the patient's perception of pain. Finally, the bone is stabilized using a special cement to increase its strength and hopefully prevent new metastases from forming.

How to find out more

If your oncologists have indicated that your primary cancer is metastasizing to bony areas, have them contact the pain management specialists at MTV IR. You can also read the informative articles we have placed on our website at http://www.mtvir.com/ or give us a call directly at 469-447-4008. We'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

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