If I knew the pain would be this bad, I’d rather have died of breast cancer

Researchers from the Biological Research for Nursing reported that genetic clues that may reveal which individuals are likely to be vulnerable to post-treatment pain.

“We’ll hear women say ‘If I knew the pain would be this bad, I’d rather have died of breast cancer,” said Erin Young, a pain geneticist in the School of Nursing. The researchers ask whether such treatment can really be called a ‘cure.’ It would be better, they say, if we could know in advance which patients might suffer from which treatments.

What do you think of this research - how might it change the course of treatment?