Targeted Medication Delivery

Sometimes advanced cancer can cause pain that is not responsive to even the strongest medications available by mouth or absorbed through the skin. When that is the case, we may consider Targeted Delivery of pain-relieving medications through usage of a special implanted pump. This pump delivers medications into the fluid around your spinal cord. By delivering medication in this targeted fashion within your central nervous system we can provide significant pain relief at doses 300 times LESS than what you would need to take by mouth. This often means that you experience better pain control with less side effects. In addition, Targeted Drug Delivery provides us with access to some medications that are helpful at reducing pain, that cannot be given any other way than through this type of pump.