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Mar 2023
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How To Manage Chronic Pain During Cancer...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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In this episode, Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes talks to pain management physician Dr. Neal Rakesh, and neurologist Dr. Anna DeForest, about the many options patients and doctors have to treat pain, including different therapies, safely managed painkillers, injections, and the possibility (and effectiveness) of psychedelics in the future.

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