Table 5. Pain characteristics of the cancer patients after pain management.
| Pain level before treatment | Pain level after treatment [cases (%)] |
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| Control group |
GPM group |
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| None | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total | None | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total | |
| Mild | 10(66.7) | 4(26.7) | 1(6.7) | 0(0.0) | 15(16.3) | 39(83.0) | 6(12.8) | 2(4.2) | 0(0.0) | 47(32.4) |
| Moderate | 16(28.6) | 19(33.9) | 19(33.9) | 2(3.6) | 56(60.9) | 32(44.4) | 30(41.7) | 9(12.5) | 1(1.4) | 72(49.7) |
| Severe | 5(23.8) | 8(38.1) | 5(23.8) | 3(14.3) | 21(22.8) | 8(30.8) | 11(42.3) | 5(19.2) | 2(7.7) | 26(17.9) |
| Total | 31(33.7) | 31(33.7) | 25(27.2) | 5(5.4) | 92 | 79(54.5) | 47(32.4) | 16(11.0) | 3(2.1) | 145 |