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Posts Tagged ‘Journal of Clinical Oncology’

• Many Cancer Patients Undertreated for Pain

  April 20th, 2012 by Pat Anson, Editor

  Over a third of patients with invasive cancer are undertreated for their pain, and minorities are twice as likely not to receive pain medication, according to researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Their study, published in…

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• Many Older Cancer Patients Not Using Narcotics for Pain

  March 19th, 2012 by Pat Anson, Editor

  Nearly one in three older cancer patients do not use narcotic painkillers even though they are in severe pain, according to a Canadian study. Researchers studied two years of data involving over 24,000 cancer patients in Ontario who were over…

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