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Annals of Oncology Advance Access originally published online on December 10, 2007
Annals of Oncology 2008 19(1):5-7; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdm555
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© 2007 European Society for Medical Oncology. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Opioids, pain, and fear

M. Maltoni

Palliative Care Unit, Division of Oncology, Forlì Local Health Authority, Forlì and Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Meldola, Italy

(E-mail: malto.ma@tin.it)

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Cancer pain has been described as ‘total pain’ presenting physical, psychological, social, and spiritual components [1], and can thus be defined as a ‘biopsychosocial experience’ [2]. It is very difficult to identify the specific ‘percentage’ of each of these components for a given value in a numerical scale of pain assessment although it has been reported that emotional and cognitive components seem to be proportionally more important in cancer pain than in noncancer pain [3]. As cancer pain is a multifactorial experience and is present together with numerous other symptoms, pain management within the context of palliative care plays an important role in the systematic control of symptoms [4]. In fact, global and continuous palliative interventions in patients bring about a substantial reduction in the dose of opioids used for cancer pain management [5]. Cancer pain must therefore be dealt . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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