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The Challenges of Treating Patients with Cancer Pain


 

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Commentary on “Cancer Breakthrough Pain in the Presence of Cancer-Related Chronic Pain: Fact versus Perceptions of Health-Care Providers and Patients” by Michelle I. Rhiner, RN, MSN, ACHPN, and Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD (page 232)

Conflicts of interest: Dr. Karver serves on Speaker's Bureaus for Meda Pharmaceutical and Pfizer Pharmaceutical.

Correspondence to: Sloan Karver, MD, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612; telephone: (813) 745-8483


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Dr. Karver is an assistant professor of oncologic sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

Ms Berger is a masters candidate in health education and behavior, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.


The Journal of Supportive Oncology
Volume 8, Issue 6, November-December 2010, Pages 239-240

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