James D. Murphy, MD, on Opioid Use Among Patients With Cancer
2020 ASCO Quality Care SymposiumJames D. Murphy, MD, of the University of California, San Diego, discusses the possible reasons for a decline in long-term opioid use in patients with cancer, even as short-term use is rising, as well as the racial and socioeconomic disparities of opioid use in this population (Abstract 187).
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