If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, you may experience pain during treatment. This pain may be either acute or chronic. Acute pain lasts for six weeks or less. Chronic pain lasts longer, typically up to nine weeks.

Peripheral nerve pain affects the nerves throughout the body. For patients seeking alternatives to oral pain medications due to potential side effects, an outpatient procedure known as peripheral nerve stimulation...

Managing pain is an important part of cancer treatment. There are many pain management options, depending on the patient’s preferences and medical history.

If you have chronic abdominal pain and medications aren’t providing relief, outpatient procedures like a celiac plexus block may be helpful. Here are five things to know about the procedure.   

The celiac plexus...