Predictors and Prevalence of Pain and Its Management in Four Regional Cancer Hospitals in India

Purpose: More than 1 million new occurrences of cancer are diagnosed in India annually. Among patients with cancer, pain is a common and persistent symptom of the disease and its treatment. However, few studies to date have evaluated the prevalence of pain and the adequacy of pain management in Indi...

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Main Authors: Katherine E. Doyle, Shatha K. El Nakib, M.R. Rajagopal, Sunil Babu, Geeta Joshi, Vidya Kumarasamy, D. Priya Kumari, Prabir Chaudhuri, Sumita Mohanthy, Debasish Jatua, Diederik Lohman, Joseph J. Amon, Gayatri Palat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Global Oncology
Online Access:http://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JGO.2016.006783