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Full Version: Morphine: A Comfort Measure For The Dying Or Pain Control For The Living?
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Cancer patients are suffering unnecessarily because they wrongly believe that morphine and other opioids are only used as "comfort for the dying" and as a "last resort" rather than seeing them as legitimate pain killers that can improve their quality of life, according to research published in Annals of Oncology.

Posted on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:00:00 EST at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...212155.htm
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