Pain can kill
PainPublished 1 January 1991
John C. Liebeskind
Citations176
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.02
SNIP1.87
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The results in tumor-bearing rats suggest that proper management of acute pain may have special importance for patients with cancer, and it is not only safe to use analgesic drugs for controlling cancer pain in man, it may be unsafe not to.
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Pain: January 1991 - Volume 44 - Issue 1 - p 3-4 doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(91)90141-J
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