Palliative care: clinical approach to chronic pain and intestinal obstruction.
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Abstract
Many patients with terminal cancer receive inadequate treatment for pain and other symptoms. Yet, using oral medications in a simple stepwise approach, we should be able to control pain in up to 80% of patients.