Palliative care 2017

Opioid tolerance in advanced cancer patients: a self limiting phenomenon?

(in months: 1= start, 2-25 are the months 1-24).

700

661

600

Physicians are (too) optimistic in assessing prognosis / life expectancy

500

412

400

>13 weeks survival

300

210

200

162 number of patients

118

101

100

65 58

39 30 26 20 16 13 14 9 10 9 7 6 5 5 3 2 4

0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10111213141516171819202122232425

months