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James F. Cleary, MD, on Global Access to Opioids

2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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James F. Cleary, MD, of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, talks about the many reasons that 80% of the world’s population lacks access to opioids, the mainstay of cancer pain management.



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