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Breakthrough Pain |
| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C9203 |
| ALT_DEFINITION |
Intense increases in pain that occur with rapid onset even when pain-control medication is being used. Breakthrough pain can occur spontaneously or in relation to a specific activity. |
| code |
C9203 |
| DEFINITION |
Many people with chronic cancer-related pain experience intermittent flares of pain that can occur even though a person is taking analgesic medications on a fixed schedule for pain control. These severe flares of pain are called breakthrough pain because the pain "breaks through" the regular pain medication. |
| FULL_SYN |
Breakthrough Pain breakthrough pain |
| label |
Breakthrough Pain |
| Legacy Concept Name |
Breakthrough_Pain |
| Preferred_Name |
Breakthrough Pain |
| prefixIRI |
Thesaurus:C9203 |
| prefLabel |
Breakthrough Pain |
| Semantic_Type |
Sign or Symptom |
| UMLS_CUI |
C1135120 |
| subClassOf |