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On the whole, pain has been reported by about 50% of all cancer patients over all stages of the illness and by 70% of advanced-stage patients [1]. Consequently cancer pain has been reckoned to have involved over the 80s more than one million persons per year who survived cancer and about 300,000 patients who died of cancer [2].
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Nicosia, F., Luzzani, M., Nolli, M. (1997). Guidelines on Cancer Pain Treatment. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2296-6_82
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