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Volume 149, Issue 3 , Pages 426-427 , June 2010

Cancer pain terminology: Time to develop a taxonomy that promotes good clinical practice and allows research to progress

Received 24 December 2009 ,Accepted 14 January 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00035-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.01.013

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