Treatment of breakthrough cancer pain: to titrate or to proportionate?
Curr Med Res Opin. 2013 Sep 5.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) , Edegem , Belgium.Abstract
Breakthrough cancer pain
can be treated effectively by rapid-onset opioids, such as sublingual
fentanyl. However, it remained unclear how the optimal dose of
sublingual fentanyl should be determined. Dosing proportional to basic
opioid regimen is now proposed as an alternative to dose titration.
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