Cancer pain is generally treated with pharmacological measures, relying on using opioids alone or in combination with adjuvant analgesics. Weak opioids are used for mild-to-moderate pain as monotherapy or in a combination with nonopioids. For patients with moderate-to-severe pain, strong opioids are
Erratum to: Pain Management in Patients with Cancer: Focus on Opioid Analgesics
β Scribed by Wojciech Leppert
- Book ID
- 107550035
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1534-3081
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Background. Development of tolerance to opioid analgesics occurs often in patients with cancer-related pain. Cross-tolerance among opioid analgesics provides the physician with a major management problem. Incomplete cross-tolerance among opioid analgesics has been demonstrated to occur in animals an
## Abstract There is emerging data supporting the use of TTSβF (transdermal therapeutic systemβfentanyl) in opioid naive patients. Our study examines the safety and efficacy of TTSβF in the longβterm control of cancer pain in opioid naive patients and those transferring from oral morphine. Pain was