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Cancer pain is an important problem from the health and social points of view. Thirty percent of patients affected by cancer have pain at diagnosis, and this percentage increases to 85% in the advanced stages of the disease. Yet, cancer pain can be efficiently controlled in most patients with an integrated program of pharmacological treatments for analgesia and anticancer therapies (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy) [1].
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Adrario, E., Verdenelli, P., Copparoni, L., Pelaia, P. (2009). Pain Relief in Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer and After Pancreatic Surgery. In: Surgical Treatment of Pancreatic Diseases. Updates in Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0856-4_38
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