Cancer Pain (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (09/12/2018)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

General Information About Cancer Pain

Added Postoperative pain as a new subsection.

Pharmacologic Therapies for Pain Control

Revised text to state that sometimes cancer treatment and its effects will lead to increased opioid use, with approximately 10% of patients continuing to take the equivalent of 30 mg of hydrocodone per day at 1 year post–curative surgery (cited Lee et al. as reference 90).

Added Shapiro et al. as reference 124.

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