Managing metastatic bone pain

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7470, 2004, Pages 812-813

  Dewar, John A ^a  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HORMONE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PAIN; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG CANCER; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED KINGDOM; BONE TUMOR; METASTASIS; PAIN;

BONE NEOPLASMS; DIPHOSPHONATES; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 4944248487     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7470.812     Document Type: Editorial

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