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Integrated strategies for the successful management of breakthrough cancer pain.

Andrew Dickman

Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 5(1):8-14 (2011) PMID 21325998

To highlight the significant impact breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) can have on patients' quality of life and to discuss potential management strategies that could improve pain control in clinical practice as well as effective strategies to manage risk.

DOI: 10.1097/SPC.0b013e3283434515
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