Opioid prescription use is more common among cancer survivors than among people without a history of cancer—even several years after their cancer diagnosis (Cancer 2017 Aug 7. [Epub ahead of print]).
Little is known about prescribing opioids to relieve pain in individuals who have survived cancer, according to Rinku Sutradhar, PhD, a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, in Toronto, and an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
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