• Palliative medicine · Jan 1994

    Case Reports

    Successful use of methadone in nociceptive cancer pain unresponsive to morphine.

    • G Leng and M J Finnegan.
    • Hospice of the Good Shepherd, Chester, UK.
    • Palliat Med. 1994 Jan 1;8(2):153-5.

    AbstractMorphine is the mainstay of pain control in cancer patients. We describe three patients in whom adequate analgesia was not obtained with morphine, and discuss the role of morphine metabolites and the use of methadone as an alternative strong opioid analgesic.

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