Yep.. looked it up in google.
And this is what jumped out at me here: http://www.rsds.org/3/research/evidence_report_3.html


Clinical Question: Is RSD/CRPS-I associated with malignancy?

Clinical Bottom line: Yes, RSD/CRPS-I has been reported to be associated with various cancers and may manifest as a paraneoplastic syndrome.
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Databases: Pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...gi?db=PubMed);

The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2002. Oxford: Update Software. Updated quarterly http://www.cochranelibrary.com
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The Evidence:

The average age of RSD patients in the series is 55 years with the youngest being 27 years and the oldest being 79 years old, suggesting that RSD with cancer can occur at any age.
Majority of the patients are observed to be females. This may be due to a generally higher prevalence of RSD in women.

Carcinomas from the reproductive tract and lung were the most common types of malignancy associated with concurrent RSD. Metastases were not reported as detected in majority of the cases.
The majority (80%) of patients with ovarian cancers are reported to have presented with bilateral upper extremity RSD.

The RSD location was unilateral in most cases with the majority confined to the upper limbs. Right and left sides were involved equally.
Majority of these cancer patients with RSD were treated with corticosteroids. Sympathetic blocks and physical therapy was administered less frequently than corticosteroids.

Twelve out of the total 22 cases of malignancy with concurrent RSD have not reported any noxious event or a cause of immobilization prior to the onset of RSD.
Pain and edema were the most commonly associated symptoms

Comments:

Consistent with the review on this topic by Mekhail and Kapural1, in the majority of cases with malignancy and concurrent RSD/CRPS-I, the upper limbs were affected with RSD/CRPS-I.
While vulvar and cervical carcinomas were associated with RSD/CRPS-I in the lower limbs, ovarian malignancies were consistently associated with upper limbs and in most cases are bilateral.

The aim of this evidence report is to corroborate the coexistence of RSD/CRPS-I and malignancy, and to characterize the demographic and disease profile of patients reported to have had both conditions. There is no evidence of any specific treatment that is different from routine therapy that is effective in managing patients with concurrent RSD/CRPS-I and cancer.
About 40% of the reported patients met the current IASP criteria for CRPS-I. In more than 50% of patients, a noxious event or immobilization was not reported.

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Sory if this is disturbing and I hope this is not what is going on with you but I do not think that in this case ignorince is bliss. The best defence we have is our knowlege, we can't expect with the little known about RSD that our doctors know it all or even a portion in some cases, and in alot of cases the protocal will be diffrent because you have RSD, to protect ourselve we need this information, each and every one of us.

I would research it further if I were you and bring in information for your doctor,.. if you need any help let me know ok
and there is also a chance that something is showing a false positive reading.. all my tests seem to do that lately

healing hugz,
Sandra