Morphine for the Treatment of Pain in Patients With Breast Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2001-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Morphine helps to relieve the pain associated with cancer surgery. Giving morphine in different ways may offer more pain relief.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well morphine injected directly into the underarm area works compared with morphine injected into the back of the shoulder in treating pain in patients who have breast cancer and who are undergoing axillary lymph node dissection.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Treatments: Fentanyl; Morphine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Patients with breast cancer who are scheduled to undergo axillary node dissection

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: See General Eligibility Criteria

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No oral-equivalent doses of morphine greater than 10 mg a day -- Patient Characteristics-- Age: Not specified Sex: Not specified Other: Not allergic to morphine