Factors that affect cancer pain is generally divided into:
1. Age, in general, the sensitivity to pain increased with increasing age. Baby is not sensitive to pain stimuli, pain dispersion, positioning is not clear. With age, the pain gradually becomes clear, sensitive and accurate positioning. Elderly pain sensitivity stronger, but too old man appeared dull pain.
2. Gender pain tolerance of women worse than men.
3. Race of people with different kinds of pain there are some differences in susceptibility. There experiments showed that the highest threshold of pain white, black people of the, yellow the lowest.
4. Genetic, physical, personal life experience, cultural differences, tolerance of pain significantly different in general, vulnerability, lack of self-control to the pain tolerance is weak, and perseverance, strong and people who have self-control tolerance is strong.
5. Psychological factors
(1) Cognitive: awareness of the direct impact of cancer pain and pain level. Experts to be an authoritative examination deemed non-cancer, or pain not related with cancer, it will naturally reduce the pain. Similar situation in the accompanying family members of cancer patients often encountered. Some had nothing to do normal discomfort and pain, once and cancer link, there will be pain or pain increased.
(2) Attention: Note that a significant effect on pain. Clinic found that most of the pain during the day light, heavier at night. Because of external stimuli during the day shift from the patient's attention, late at night more attention to their patients condition leaving the pain worse.
(3) emotions: negative emotions, such as anxiety, depression, and can aggravate the pain, upbeat mood can ease the pain. More negative emotions associated with cancer patients, cancer pain is one of the reasons heavier. When he learned that his condition improves, reduce their pain.
(4) hint: hint that can affect the degree of pain. Deep hypnotic state, guided by the language suggested by the hypnotist to lose and feel pain. Clinical methods are often implied that the case of pain relief.
Factors that affect cancer pain (5) Will: strong-willed person's tolerance to pain is strong, weak-willed less tolerated. Clinic found that a pain in cancer patients, when treatment lost confidence weak, the pain severe, when the ideological struggle through persuasion or through others, to establish the confidence to fight cancer, enhance the will to live, the pain can be eased .
(6) Other: pain, patient attitudes, beliefs, etc. can affect the degree of cancer pain.