title: Treatment of breakthrough cancer pain: to titrate or to proportionate?
abstract: Breakthrough cancer pain can be treated effectively by rapid-onset opioids, such as sublingual fentanyl. However, it remained unclear how the optimal dose of sublingual fentanyl should be determined. Dosing proportional to basic opioid regimen is now proposed as an alternative to dose titration.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) , Edegem , Belgium.
authors: Guy H
authors: GH
authors: Hans
mesh_terms: D059390:Breakthrough Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D005283:Fentanyl / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D005283:Fentanyl