Epidemiology of cancer pain

Clinical Pain Management: Cancer Pain, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-26

  Higginson, Irene J ^a   Hearn, Julie ^b   Murtagh, Fliss ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

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