Current Issues in Cancer Palliative care
- 21 May 1994
- Vol. 308 (6940) , 1359-62
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.308.6940.1359
Abstract
Pain is one of the most common and probably most feared symptoms of advanced cancer. A recent highly publicised court case centred on the symptomatic management of a patient with severe rheumatoid arthritis4 served to illustrate that pain is not always responsive to conventional analgesics.Keywords
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