Cancer Patients Hold Fast to Belief That Opioids Mean Death

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"So patients at all stages of cancer could have morphine if their pain is sufficient. In reality, the patients most likely to experience pain, and likely also to have the most severe pain, are those with metastatic disease, i.e., their cancer cannot be cured. These patients may yet have many months to live, but their quality of life is adversely affected by pain, since unrelieved pain leads to social isolation, loss of role and depressed mood," Reid said.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about cancer pain control.

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-- Robert Preidt