Sentences with phrase «constipation than his cancer»
Struck by the suffering of a friend with cancer who complained more about his morphine - induced constipation than his cancer - related pain, Goldberg tested derivatives of naltrexone, an established morphine - blocking drug.
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Patients with advanced cancers who took a drug designed to relieve constipation caused by pain killers lived longer and had fewer reports of tumor progression than cancer patients who did not receive the drug, according to results presented Oct. 27 at the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in San Diego.
More than 250,000 terminal cancer patients each year take opioid drugs such as morphine for pain relief and 125,000 experience constipation, sometimes so severe that they refuse morphine.
Frequently: at least one and up to three formed movements a day (fewer than one a day is considered constipation and increases your risk for cancer).