Opioids & life expectancy?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
not
5-299 300-599 >600
morphine mg/day
Median survival in home care in
function of daily morphine dose
P = 0,002 Mantel-Cox
P=0,029 Breslow-analysis
Bercovitch et al. Cancer 2004; 101 (6):
1473-7