The Cancer Pain App, developed to accompany The Cancer Pain Book, is a free and practical guide to a range of meditations and exercises that help to manage and reduce cancer pain.

The strategies explained and demonstrated in the app have been shown to benefit people living with cancer-related pain. They are suitable for people with all types and at all stages of cancer.

Key features
• Mind: Practise a range of mindfulness meditations, and breathing and relaxation techniques.
• Body: Follow exercise demonstrations to build strength, stretch muscles and maintain overall health.
• Pain assessment: Self-assess the intensity of nine common cancer symptoms. Consistent use is recommended to help you to recognise how you are feeling and to track your progress.

About The Cancer Pain Book

More than half of those with cancer will experience pain. Living through a cancer diagnosis and experiencing changes to physical health, relationships, and emotional and psychological wellbeing can make it difficult to face pain or the prospect of relieving it with any confidence or hope. However, there is hope. The Cancer Pain Book and accompanying App guide you to understand your pain experience – the what, how and why of cancer pain – and the mind–body connection. With a focus on pain management through proven psychosocial interventions including exercise, relaxation, meditation and psychological tools, these resources can assist in building mental resilience, self-compassion and positive thinking.

Using these strategies, you can be hopeful about achieving better control of your cancer pain. Better control means more energy to enjoy the activities you love and time you spend with others. Whatever sort of cancer you have and wherever you are in your journey, The Cancer Pain Book and App will help to make one part of it easier.