Table 3.

Description of indications

1	Non-specific: to include lack of appetite, wellbeing, fatigue nausea, vomiting, pain and shortness of breath
2	Neurological to include: raised intracranial pressure, cerebral tumours, spinal cord compression and nerve compression or infiltration
3	Capsular stretching: to include liver metastases and other visceral organ metastases
4	Soft tissue infiltration: to include head and neck tumours and abdominal and pelvic tumours
5	Tenesmus: rectal pain due to invasive tumours
6	Inflammation with syringe driver sites (subcutaneous route)
7	Not clear/other: to include any indication, which was either not clear or did not fit in the other categories
8	Chemotherapy