Monday 23 August 2021

Opioid use drops among cancer patients at end of life

 A new study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology indicates that palliative care cancer patients are not receiving adequate opioid medication to control pain.  Conducted over a period of 10 years from 2007-2017 on 270,000 cancer patients, findings determined that the filling of opioid prescriptions during the last month of life dropped from 42% to 35%, correlated with a significant number of emergency departments visits due to pain increasing during this time period.  This translated into an overall 25% drop of daily medication dosage.  

To read more about this study, click here. 







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