Pain Treatment Department

The Pain Treatment Department of Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital is a department specializing in the diagnosis, treatment and management of cancer pain.

Its predecessor, the "Pain Relief Clinic", was opened in 1994 and was the first in China to carry out an at-home treatment model for cancer pain patients.

In 1996, the hospital jointly participated in the pain relief clinic work with the Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine and the Department of Oncology, forming a multidisciplinary cancer pain treatment model and leading the country in standardizing cancer pain drug management and treatment.

In 2008, with the establishment of the inpatient ward, the development of the pain treatment science department entered the "fast track".

Currently, the Pain Treatment Department is one of the first batch of "Cancer Pain Standardized Treatment (GPM) Demonstration Wards" of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the "CPAI Pain Management Institute Clinical Education Base" of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, and the "National Standardized Tumor Nutritional Therapy Demonstration Ward" of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association.

He has trained cancer pain specialists for many oncology hospitals and large general hospitals across the country, and most of them have become academic leaders in cancer pain treatment in their regions.

After more than 20 years of development, the department has formed a multidisciplinary treatment model with "palliative care as the main line, cancer pain treatment as the focus, and nutrition and psychological support as the characteristics", which involves drug treatment, minimally invasive interventional treatment, nutritional assessment and intervention, psychological assessment and intervention, and treatment of accompanying symptoms of patients with intermediate and advanced cancer pain.

At present, the minimally invasive interventional techniques carried out by the department mainly include nerve damage surgery, radiofrequency thermocoagulation, particle implantation, and percutaneous vertebroplasty, covering various post-tumor pain syndromes, bone metastasis pain, upper abdominal pain caused by retroperitoneal metastasis such as pancreatic cancer and gastric cancer, perineal pain caused by pelvic tumors, and other diseases. In 2017, the number of outpatient visits reached more than 11,950, and the number of inpatients reached more than 480.

While completing a large amount of clinical work, the department also actively participates in scientific research and training of cancer pain specialists.

Now it has undertaken 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China project and 5 college-level projects. In the past three years, it has published more than 30 papers, including 8 papers included in SCI;

Trained more than 30 cancer pain specialists.