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Cancer Pain: Palliative Care

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Palliative care: definition and scope, frequency of pain and multiple sites of pain, barriers to treatment, and importance of development of evidence-based practice in the management of cancer pain

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University Hospital, 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA

    Niharika Saw MD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Saw, N. (2017). Cancer Pain: Palliative Care. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_117

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