Pain Assessment in Cancer

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Abstract
Poorly controlled pain has such deleterious effects on the cancer patient and the patient’s family that its proper management ought to have the highest priority in the routine care of the patient with cancer. Not only do mood and quality of life deteriorate in the presence of pain, but pain has adverse effects on such measures of disease status as appetite and activity. Pain of severe intensity may be a primary reason why both patients and their families decide to abandon treatment.

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