2009-07-16 / Health & Wellness

Learn how to manage pain due to cancer

The Wellness Community Valley/Ventura is offering a pain management workshop for people with cancer and their families, "Finding Your Comfort Zone: What Every Cancer Patient Should Know About Managing Pain," from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thurs., July 30 at 530 Hampshire Road, Westlake Village.

This free workshop is open to people with cancer, cancer survivors, and family members.

Margo McCaffery, registered nurse, will discuss how to take control of fears and anxiety about pain.

McCaffery is a consultant in the field of nursing pain management and author of "Pain, Clinical Manual."

To RSVP, call (805) 3794777. For information, go to www.TwcVv.org.

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