PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - Wilke, William S. AU - Hanks, Geoffrey TI - Palliative care: Clinical approach to chronic pain and intestinal obstruction DP - 1999 Sep 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 459--461 VI - 66 IP - 8 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/66/8/459.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/66/8/459.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med1999 Sep 01; 66 AB - Many patients with terminal cancer receive inadequate treatment for pain and other symptoms. Yet, using oral medications in a simple stepwise approach, we should be able to control pain in up to 80% of patients.