Opinion statement Opioids are the gold standard for the treatment of cancer-related pain.
Preclinical studies have associated opioids with cancer progression and overall survival. In …

About half of cancer patients experience pain, most commonly due to their primary cancer.
Pain severity is at least moderate for most patients experiencing cancer-related pain. Pain …

Purpose Spiritual well-being is threatened by cancer, but its correlation with other illness
symptoms and the efficacy of palliative care (PC) to ameliorate spiritual suffering are not well …

We evaluated the pain associated with cancer and its impact on pain management, anxiety,
and depression in Chinese patients using a controlled cross-sectional study. One hundred …

Objectives Traditionally, the literature investigating patient‐reported outcomes in relation to
cancer survival focused on negative factors such as distress. Meta‐analyses in this field …

Introduction Evidence-based services to support cancer patients with pain via clinical
pharmacy services are currently lacking. Therefore, there is a need to undertake a …

Aim: The purpose of this study was to identify Iranian nurses' perceptions of palliative care
for patients with cancer pain. Methods: The study took a qualitative approach. Semi …

Opioids are important in the management of pain in patients with cancer. Clinicians and
patients are sometimes concerned about the effect of opioids on survival, which might …

Background: Patients with advanced conditions may present a wish to hasten death.
Assessing this wish is complex due to the nature of the phenomenon and the difficulty of …

Objective This study aimed to provide support for the extensive application of Distress
Thermometer (DT) in advanced cancer inpatients with pain and explored factors associated …