Palliative care 2017

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Causes of pain in 100 cancer patients

[Twycross 1983]

• Cancer:

67%

• Related to treatment:

5%

• Associated pain:

6%

[constipation, bed sores, catheters]

• Unrelated pain:

22%

[Musculoskeletal, migraine etc]