Mechanisms Underlying Cancer-Induced Bone Pain

Pain from bone metastases is multifaceted with clinical descriptors including ongoing pain, hypersensitivity to external stimuli and intermittent episodes of breakthrough pain characterized as a sudden and abrupt onset of severe pain on a background of well-controlled pain. Moreover, cancer-induced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sukhtankar, Devki
Other Authors: Porreca, Frank
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202718