Balancing analgesia with alertness and breakthrough pain

Bone pain is the most common type of pain from cancer and is present in around one third of patients with bone metastases, currently, improvements in cancer treatments mean that many patients are living with metastatic cancer for several years. Christopher Kane, NIHR academic clinical fellow in palliative medicine at Leeds University School of Medicine, and Michael Bennett, St Gemma’s professor of palliative medicine at University College London join us to discuss the management of cancer induced bone pain. Read the full clinical review:

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h315