Research Progress of the Occurrence Mechanism of Bone Cancer Pain

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Abstract

As one of the common complications of patients with malignant tumors, cancer pain seriously affects their quality of life, especially the bone cancer pain, and the conventional analgesic effect of some patients with bone cancer pain is not ideal. The pathogenesis of bone cancer pain is complicated, the pathogenesis can be deeply understood and provide diagnosis and treatment thoughts for clinical relief of bone cancer pain by consulting the literature and summarizing the pathogenesis of bone cancer pain.

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