When you think of a lollipop -- candy comes to mind. But Ted Banasiewicz thinks of relief for his excruciating cancer pain.
Ted's battled cancer for nine years and never leaves home without his own kind of lollipop -- a prescription painkiller version called actiq.
"Right now, I carry it with me wherever I go," he said.
The berry-flavored lozenge is fentanyl: 100-times more powerful than morphine. It is absorbed through the cheek and relieves pain in minutes.
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Ted's battled cancer for nine years and never leaves home without his own kind of lollipop -- a prescription painkiller version called actiq.
"Right now, I carry it with me wherever I go," he said.
The berry-flavored lozenge is fentanyl: 100-times more powerful than morphine. It is absorbed through the cheek and relieves pain in minutes.
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