Morphine use for at-home cancer patients in Japan

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
Kazuhiko Kotani

Abstract

Recently, many cancer patients have been cared for at home in Japan. Cancer pain control is one of the most important factors for terminal cancer patients to maintain functional lives at home. Morphine has long been the gold standard in the control of cancer pain. This paper examined the present status of the frequency of morphine use and its prescribing route for pain control in cancer patients at home monitored by doctors offering home care medicine in Japan. We reviewed the data based on the replies to questionnaires about morphine use in a textbook edited in 2001 by the doctors supportive of home care medicine nationwide in Japan. 301 (92.9%) among 324 doctors administered morphine for at-home cancer patients. 257 doctors' replies were analyzed as to the prescribed pattern of morphine after excluding data without information on the administration route. The oral administration was most frequently used in 247 (96.1%) doctors and rectal administration was used in 217 (84.4%) doctors, while intravenous injection and epidural infusions were less common. The pattern of morphine administration was similar between doctors who worked at hospitals and clinics, except that doctors who worked at hospitals administered subcutaneously m...Continue Reading

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