[Prevalence and intensity of pain in terminally-ill cancer patients at admission in palliative care center: a mono-institutional descriptive analysis]. / II dolore nel paziente oncologico terminale: prevalenza ed intensità del sintomo all'ingresso in hospice. Analisi descrittiva monocentrica.

ABSTRACT

Pain is a distressing symptom in terminally-ill cancer and, to date, many patients still experience uncontrolled pain. We evaluated prevalence and intensity of pain at admission in Palliative Care Center. We recruited 323 patients more than 80% referred moderate/severe pain and only 50% was adsuming strong opioids.