59 / 604
(in months: 1= start, 2-25 are the months 1-24).
Opioid tolerance in advanced cancer patients:
a self limiting phenomenon?
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number of patients
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Physicians are (too) optimistic in
assessing prognosis / life expectancy
>13 weeks survival