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Opioid Use amongst Cancer Patients at the End of Life

Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna, Jissy Vijo Poulose, Benjamin SA Tan, Cynthia Goh

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore · 2010 · 35 citations · 28 references

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Our results showed that opioids are safe medications for symptom alleviation in terminally ill cancer patients during the last days of life and have no deleterious influence on survival.

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