ABOUT

Our lab studies ways to improve the measurement and management of cancer pain and determine the “biopsychosocial” (e.g. “bio”/biological : the effects of the disease itself; “psycho”/psychological : the meaning of pain; social : caregiving) risk and protective factors for cancer pain. Our research aims to improve our understanding of these things across the entire cancer trajectory, from diagnosis, through treatment, and advancing disease, or into the post-treatment disease-free survivorship phase, and across the adult lifespan.

 

We use a diverse array of designs (survey; consensus-based decision-making; community-based participatory research; clinical studies using longitudinal, mixed-methods, and dyadic designs) and assessment methodologies (patient-reported outcomes, clinician-reported outcomes, and quantitative sensory testing) to better understand cancer pain.  

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We gratefully acknowledge support for our work from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Quebec Pain Research Network, the Quebec Research Network in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, the Canadian Pain Society, and the Fondation J.-Louis Lévesque. 

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We are especially grateful to the people who participate in our studies and the people with whom we collaborate, who make our work possible.