Morphine the savior of pain for most terminal patients and recovering cancer surgery patients. However, "clinical use of morphine could potentially be harmful" as said in "Morphine and Other Pain Relief Drugs Used in Cancer Surgery May Spur Return of Malignancy" by by Adam Marcus. In this article it is explained that some pain relieving drugs given to patients can be harmful to cancer patients. Reason being that cancer loves environments with opioids, such as morphine. But also opiods can cause leaky blood vessels which are a paradise for a cancer cell waiting for nourishment and conducting angiogenesis. Also regional anesthesia weaken the body's immune system after a cancer surgery but cancer cells are still left inside the body and the immune system is needed to get rid of those few cells. unfortunately because of the drugs the immune system is suppressed and the body is unable to react and chances of the cancer is possible. Although, there is some evidence supporting the study there is definitive answer to if some pain killers can increase the chances of reoccurring.
Oncology is the study of cancer and it needs a lot of research to even consider a cure, cause, or understanding. Oncology helps us overcome the disease of cancer and helps find new and safer ways of fighting it. Not only does it help find a cure but it also helos find causes and aids us in not contracting the disease ourselves.
This a greatly important because cancer has been around for many years and morphine and other drugs have been used with it and this ais a form of awakening to the medical field and to us the general public. For so long these drugs have been used and to find out that we have been giving patients a higher chance of suffering from the disease is shocking but teaches us there is ALWAYS more to learn
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