Cancer Pain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hanna, Magdi (Editor), Zylicz, Zbigniew (Ben) (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Oncology.; Pain medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

Cancer remains a major challenge for medicine and it continues to claim lives and cause great suffering.  Pain is a symptom experienced by most  cancer patients regardless of disease stage, and less than 50% of cancer pain patients achieve effective pain and symptom control though available therapie...