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Patrick W. Mantyh

Patrick W. Mantyh PhD, JD

Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Medicine
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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Dr. Patrick W. Mantyh, PhD, JD, shared a number of fascinating cancer-related pain management discoveries in a recent edition of The ASCO Post.

Dr. Mantyh is a Professor of Pharmacology and a research member with the University of Arizona Cancer Center's Cancer Biology Program (CBIO). His research focuses in large part on the relationship between pain management therapies and its impact on tumor growth and metastesis. His lab looks to understand why cancer cells preferentially metastasize to specific organs such as the bone, what role nerves that innervate the bone play in tumor metastasis to bone, and to develop a mechanism-based understanding and therapies to prevent the metastasis of tumors to bone, the growth of tumors in bone and reduce the severe pain that tumor metastases can cause.

ASCO Post writer Jo Cavallo asked Dr. Mantyh about "when pain management strategies should be started in the palliative care setting; what the most effective therapies are for controlling pain; and the emergence of targeted symptom therapy in alleviating cancer pain." The interview was published online May 25
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