Opioids have no negative effect on the survival time of patients with advanced lung cancer in an acute care hospital

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not opioid administration influenced the survival time of patients with advanced lung cancer in an acute care hospital setting. Methods This was a single institutional and retrospective study. We reviewed patients with advanced lung cancer...

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Published in:Supportive care in cancer 2015-08, Vol.23 (8), p.2245-2254
Main Authors: Minami, Seigo, Fujimoto, Kosuke, Ogata, Yoshitaka, Yamamoto, Suguru, Komuta, Kiyoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Analgesics, Opioid - administration & dosage
Analgesics, Opioid - adverse effects
Cancer patients
Chemotherapy
Comparative analysis
Female
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - drug therapy
Lung Neoplasms - mortality
Male
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Multivariate Analysis
Narcotics
Nursing
Nursing Research
Oncology
Opioids
Original Article
Pain Medicine
Patient outcomes
Rehabilitation Medicine
Retrospective Studies
Survival analysis
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Summary:Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not opioid administration influenced the survival time of patients with advanced lung cancer in an acute care hospital setting. Methods This was a single institutional and retrospective study. We reviewed patients with advanced lung cancer who had died from January 2008 to December 2013 at the Osaka Police Hospital. We compared survival times, calculated from the time of the last hospitalization or the last chemotherapy, between patients who had not used any opioids, those who had used a low dose of opioids (
ISSN:0941-4355
1433-7339
DOI:10.1007/s00520-014-2592-6