Reply to the letter to the editor 'Small repeated boluses are unreliable to provide rapid analgesia with intravenous morphine titration and mislead conversion ratio to oral morphine' by Mercadante S

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¹ Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, IGMM, University of Edinburg, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Onco-Haematology, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: carla.ripamonti@istitutotumori.mi.it.

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M Fallon et al. Ann Oncol. 2018.

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. 2018 Oct 1;29(10):2148-2149.

doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy328.

¹ Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, IGMM, University of Edinburg, Edinburgh, UK.
² Department of Onco-Haematology, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: carla.ripamonti@istitutotumori.mi.it.

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Management of cancer pain in adult patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Fallon M, Giusti R, Aielli F, Hoskin P, Rolke R, Sharma M, Ripamonti CI; ESMO Guidelines Committee. Fallon M, et al. Ann Oncol. 2018 Oct 1;29(Suppl 4):iv166-iv191. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy152. Ann Oncol. 2018. PMID: 30052758 No abstract available.
Small repeated boluses are unreliable to provide rapid analgesia with intravenous morphine titration and mislead conversion ratio to oral morphine.
Mercadente S. Mercadente S. Ann Oncol. 2018 Oct 1;29(10):2147-2148. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy327. Ann Oncol. 2018. PMID: 30165423 No abstract available.