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Cancer-related pain, particularly in patients with advanced or metastatic cancer, significantly impacts their physical and emotional health, often leading to lower quality of life, anxiety, and depression.

Opioid use for pain management, while common, can result in misuse, side effects, and tolerance, making treatment more complex.

Nurse practitioners can play a key role in improving patient outcomes by promoting personalized, evidence-based pain management plans that combine pharmacological treatments with complementary therapies, reducing reliance on opioids.

 

In cancer patients with advanced or metastatic disease (P), what is the effect of personalized, evidence-based pain management plans combining pharmacological treatments and complementary therapies (I) in comparison to opioid-only pain management (C) on improving quality of life and reducing pain (O) to be completed over a 6-month period (T)?

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