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World Health Organization data published in 1983 show that some 965 000 patients in the United States and 18 million people throughout the world were at that time afflicted by pain in the advanced or terminal stages of cancer diseases.
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Ventafridda, V., Sbanotto, A. (1989). Pain Treatment in Cancer. In: Veronesi, U., Arnesjø, B., Burn, I., Denis, L., Mazzeo, F. (eds) Surgical Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72646-0_26
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