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James D. Murphy, MD, on Opioid Use Among Patients With Cancer

2020 ASCO Quality Care Symposium

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James 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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