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Cancer Pain Management

At Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, cancer pain specialists from the Emory Pain Center provide interventional cancer pain management care tailored to address your specific pain symptoms.

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Relief from your Cancer Pain

Depending on your cancer diagnosis, you may experience pain related to your cancer or your treatment. This pain may be mild, moderate or severe, and it may be located in an organ, or an entire organ system.

Pain is Personal. The Way You Treat it Should be Personal, too.

Are you ready to get personal about pain relief? Research shows that the more you know about pain and the more active and positive you are in your treatment, the more effective it will be.

Our customized treatment plans will enable you to lead a more active life, engaging in activities that bring you personal joy. Our cancer pain specialists tailor custom management plans using a variety of tools to provide safe, long-term relief from your pain. These tools include acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, pain medications with a focus on minimizing opioids and various interventions.

Your cancer pain specialist may treat for:

  • Pain radiating into the hands or feet from spine disease with epidural steroid injection.
  • Headaches, neck pain or pain due to arthritis of the spine with facet joint blocks and radiofrequency ablation.
  • Chronic pain in various joints of the body with steroid injections and/or peripheral nerve blocks/ablation.
  • Visceral pain due to gastrointestinal, gynecologic or genitourinary cancer with sympathetic nerve blocks/ablation or nerve destruction.
  • Chronic nerve pain involving the arms, legs, back and face with peripheral nerve or spinal cord stimulators.
  • Vertebral compression fractures or painful metastatic spine disease with vertebral augmentation and medical cement placement.
  • Intractable pain in multiple areas of the body with an intrathecal pump, a device that delivers pain medications to the spine directly.

Clinic Locations

We offer pain management clinics at the following locations:

  • Emory Pain Center
    550 Peachtree Street, NE, 7th Floor
    Atlanta, GA 30308
  • Emory Pain Center at the Neurology Clinic
    12 Executive Park Drive NE, 5th Floor
    Atlanta, GA 30329
  • Emory Pain Center at 1525
    1525 Clifton Road, 4th Floor
    Atlanta, GA 30329

Meet Our Pain Management Team

Vinita Singh, MD, MS Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Research Program
Cancer Prevention and Control

Dr. Singh collaborates with oncologists to provide state-of-the-art therapies to cancer patients suffering from pain symptoms.

Vinita Singh, MD, MS

Rupeng Li, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Research Program
Cancer Prevention and Control

Dr. Li works with care teams at Winship to treat chronic pain symptoms in patients with cancer.

Rupeng Li, MD, PhD

M. Yawar J. Qadri, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Emory University School of Medicine

A cancer pain management expert, Dr. Qadri collaborates with oncologists at Winship to treat patients with cancer suffering from chronic pain symptoms.

M. Yawar J. Qadri, MD, PhD

Nan Xiang, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology

Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Xiang specializes in managing chronic pain symptoms for patients with cancer.

Nan Xiang, MD