作者: Patrick W. O’Donnell , Nancy M. Luger , Denis R. Clohisy
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-019-7_11
关键词: Bone pain 、 Cancer 、 Cause of death 、 Internal medicine 、 In patient 、 Cancer metastasis 、 Bone cancer 、 Medicine 、 Quality of life 、 Heart disease 、 Oncology
摘要: In 2005, cancer was second only to heart disease as the leading cause of death in United States. There are 1.4 million new cases diagnosed each year resulting over one-half a deaths. Due improvements detection and treatment, longer patient survival after diagnosis is now possible. Unfortunately, quality life patients dealing with advanced significantly reduced. A major contributor overall decreased such bone pain [12, 45].