TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing Pain in Patients and Survivors
T2 - Challenges Within the United States Opioid Crisis
AU - Paice, Judith A.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Advances in cancer treatment have led to a growing number of survivors. At least 40% of those survivors live with chronic pain and need pain control medication. This coincides with an epidemic of opioid misuse and overdose deaths, resulting in restrictive practices that can impact patients who experience severe pain. Oncologists and other healthcare professionals who treat patients with cancer need to balance considerations of opioid misuse with effective pain control and become better educated about risk factors and management of opioids in cancer survivors.
AB - Advances in cancer treatment have led to a growing number of survivors. At least 40% of those survivors live with chronic pain and need pain control medication. This coincides with an epidemic of opioid misuse and overdose deaths, resulting in restrictive practices that can impact patients who experience severe pain. Oncologists and other healthcare professionals who treat patients with cancer need to balance considerations of opioid misuse with effective pain control and become better educated about risk factors and management of opioids in cancer survivors.
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U2 - 10.6004/jnccn.2019.5010
DO - 10.6004/jnccn.2019.5010
M3 - Letter
C2 - 31117028
AN - SCOPUS:85066488112
SN - 1540-1405
VL - 17
SP - 595
EP - 598
JO - Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
JF - Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
IS - 55
ER -
