Our results suggest that in the measurement of cancer pain exacerbations ... (VRS): Verbal Rating Scales; (BP-EP): Breakthrough or intense Episodic Pain; (CI): Confidence Interval.

1 This article provides a summary of symptom assessment tools and reviews the management of four common and distressing symptoms frequently experienced by patients with advanced cancer: pain, ...

Cancer diseases are classified based on their stage on a scale from 0 to 4 ... These are: chest pain, neck pain, and back ...

Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be superior to ...