Buprenorphine for Cancer Pain-The Safest Opioid, and Patients With Cancer Cannot Get It.

JAMA Oncol

Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

Published: August 2025


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