Current challenges in cancer pain management: Does the WHO ladder approach still have relevance?

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1501-1502

  Burton, Allen W ^a   Hamid, Basem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CELIAC PLEXUS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANALGESICS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 37349098356     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.7.11.1501     Document Type: Editorial

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