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Patients undergoing transplantation are at high risk for infection with a variety of pathogens at multiple phases in their care.
Patients receiving standard chemotherapy regimens for solid tumors are at lower risk for development of febrile neutropenia and infection than patients who undergo bone marrow or stem cell transplantation.
These general prevention of infection resources refer to cancer-related or cancer treatment-related infection, not including transplantation.
Intractable pain or refractory pain occurs when pain cannot be adequately controlled despite aggressive measures.
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Chronic pain persists for three months or more. Cancer-related chronic pain may result from cancer treatment but is most frequently caused by bone metastasis.
Breakthrough pain is sudden, brief pain that occurs during a period when chronic pain is generally well controlled (typically, controlled with opiods).
Acute pain is typically related to diagnostic procedures and cancer treatment and is generally defined as lasting no longer than three months.