The cancer pain relief programme of the World Health Organization
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Palliative Medicine
- Vol. 4 (1) , 1-3
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026921639000400102
Abstract
At any one time 14 million people suffer from cancer. The WHO has established a Global Cancer Control Programme aimed at prevention, detection, therapy and pain relief. Much has been achieved in the 1980s, but an expanded programme is planned for the 1990s.Keywords
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