National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 21, 2019
Preferred Name

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.

label

Breakthrough Pain

Legacy_Concept_Name

Breakthrough_Pain

Preferred_Name

Breakthrough Pain

prefixIRI

C9203

prefLabel

Breakthrough Pain

Semantic_Type

Sign or Symptom

UMLS_CUI

C1135120

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C3303

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