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. 2023 Jan 18;15(3):591. doi: 10.3390/cancers15030591

Table 6.

Pain prevalence in patients after curative treatment (Group 5) (n = 88).

% Pain
Study Quality Continent a Setting b Cancer c Mean Age Sample None Mild Moderate ModSev d Severe Overall
Adams, 2014 [141] 17 2 2 1 70.6 418 15.5
Ahmed, 2014 [142] 17 3 2 5 49.33 73 5.4
Al Maqbali, 2021 [143] 15 3 2 5 133 45.1
Andersen, 2015 [144] 19 2 2 5 475 86 14
Asplund, 2015 [145] 18 2 2 6 545 79 7 21
Baden, 2020 [146] 18 2 2 7 3348 24
Bao, 2018 [147] 18 1 2 5 1280 33.3
Bennedsgaard–a, 2020 [148]
Bennedsgaard–b, 2020 [148]
17
17
2
2
2
2
5
6
56.6
68.0
80
52
47.5
45.1
Boehmer–a, 2021 [149]
Boehmer–b, 2021 [149]
17
17
1
1
2
2
6
6
116
302
6.1
6.6
Bøhn, 2019 [150] 16 2 2 1 49.1 1088 10
Bonhof, 2020 [151] 17 2 2 6 477 9
Bovbjerg, 2019 [152] 15 1 2 5 59.4 417 50.6
Bulley, 2014 [153] 15 2 2 5 62.3 595 28.8
Cameron, 2018 [154] 16 1 2 1 26.9 124 54.5
Capelan, 2017 [155] 15 2 2 5 214 29
Chiang, 2019 [156] 18 6 2 5 60.2 201 23 4 55
Cramer, 2018 [2] 18 1 2 2 175 54.9 22 11.6 23.1 11.5 45.1
Cui, 2018 [157] 15 3 2 5 52.4 420 36.2
de Groef, 2017 [158] 16 2 2 5 54.1 147 50
Dieterich–a, 2021 [159]
Dieterich–b, 2021 [159]
15
15
2
2
2
2
5
5
60.9
64.4
120
55
60.8
62.3
27.5
20.8
8.4
15
11.7
16.9
3.3
1.9
39.2
37.7
Drury, 2017 [160] 17 2 2 6 66.4 252 64 26 8 10 2 36
Dualé, 2014 [161] 18 2 2 5 442 37.1
Efficace, 2019 [162] 15 2 2 10 52.5 244 51 27 22 49
Engvall, 2021 [163] 16 2 2 5 60.7 646 46.3
Esser, 2017 [37] 15 2 2 10 47.7 102 8
Ezendam, 2014 [164] 17 2 2 9 65 180 31.7
Farrukh, 2020 [165] 17 1 2 10 736 39.4
Feddern, 2015 [166] 19 2 2 6 1369 13 13 18 5 31
Ferreira, 2019 [167] 18 2 2 5 4262 51
Gallaway, 2020 [168] 17 1 2 1 12,019 9.5
Gjeilo, 2020 [38] 18 2 2 4 194 55
Gong, 2020 [169] 16 3 2 5 49.3 1983 28.2
Götze–a, 2018 [170]
Götze–b, 2018 [170]
16
16
2
2
2
2
1
1
66.3
67.3
660
342
51.2
50.8
Hammer, 2014 [171] 15 1 2 9 63.5 213 22.5
Hamood–a, 2016 [172]
Hamood–b, 2016 [172]
15
15
3
3
2
2
5
5
57
50
54
29
25.9
10.3
9.3
10.3
48.2
34.5
48.2
55.2
0
20.7
57.4
65.5
Hamood, 2018 [173] 17 3 2 5 410 64 74.4
Haviland, 2017 [174] 17 2 2 5 55.1 864 32.3
Henderson–a, 2014 [175]
Henderson–b, 2014 [175]
16
16
2
2
2
2
5
5
63
49
138
134
73.2
61.9
17.4
26.1
9.4
10.4
9.4
11.9
0
1.5
26.8
38
Henry, 2020 [176] 16 1 2 63.3 145 16.6 15.9 21.4 5.5 37.9
Hope-Stone, 2015 [177] 15 2 2 11 66.7 179 77 23
Huang, 2020 [178] 15 1 2 1 33.6 1208 18.7
Janah, 2020 [179] 16 2 2 1 4093 36.5 63.5
Jansen, 2018 [180] 15 2 2 2 70 283 8.8
Jardim, 2020 [181] 16 4 2 5 55 151 18.5
Jariwala, 2021 [182] 19 3 2 5 50 212 12
Johannsdottir, 2017 [183] 15 2 2 11 124 56.1 33.3 10.6 10.6 0 43.9
Johannsen, 2015 [184] 17 2 2 5 1905 72.7
Juhl, 2016 [185] 19 2 2 5 63.6 261 13 19.2 25.3 6.1 38.3
Karlson, 2020 [186] 15 1 2 1 10,012 71.4 e 20.5 28.6 8.1
Kaur, 2018 [187] 15 3 2 5 49.76 230 63.5
Kelada, 2019 [188] 16 6 2 10,11 26.27 404 28.7
Kibar, 2017 [189] 16 2 2 5 52.5 201 68.2 31.8
Kjaer, 2016 [190] 15 2 2 2 64 369 16.0
Knowlton, 2020 [191] 15 1 2 1 294 24.2
Koehler, 2018 [192] 19 1 2 5 56 36 44.0
Kramer, 2019 [193] 15 5 2 5 60.05 349 26 46 14 28 14 74
Lou, 2021 [194] 16 1 2 2 59.3 77 40 f
Lunde, 2019 [43] 18 2 2 9 67.2 207 14.9
Lunde, 2020 [195] 19 2 2 9 66.1 140 13.6
Madsen, 2017 [97] 17 2 2 11 63 95 37
Mao, 2018 [196] 15 1 2 5 1103 26.2
Mertz, 2017 [197] 19 2 2 5 473 67 21 12 33
Miaskowski, 2014 [198] 18 1 2 5 54.98 394 41.6 58.4
Min, 2021 [199] 15 3 2 7 64 111 12.6
Mulrooney, 2019 [200] 19 1 2 10 980 70 23 5 7 2 30
Paek, 2019 [201] 18 3 2 1 62.2 1037 71.9 28.1 28.1
Park, 2018 [202] 17 3 2 11 36.43 144 75 25
Poço Conçalves, 2021 [203] 17 2 2 1 65.33 85 77.6 0 20 22.4 2.4 22.4
Ravn Munkvold, 2018 [44] 18 2 2 2 357 70 19 7 11 4 30
Reilly, 2016 [204] 17 1 2 10 47.6 31 68
Ren, 2021 [205] 17 1 2 2 61.5 505 55 17.7 19.5 26.9 7.4 45
Rogers, 2021 [206] 15 1 2 11 47 248 49
Rosenberg, 2015 [207] 15 1 2 5 55.8 2086 48
Sanchez-Birkhead, 2017 [208] 15 1 2 5 52.6 35 38.3 79
Sanford, 2019 [209] 15 1 2 1 7565 67.5 32.5
Schou Bredal, 2014 [210] 16 2 2 5 56 834 21 17 20 3 41
Selvy, 2020 [211] 16 2 2 6 66.3 406 11.5
Steyaert, 2016 [212] 15 2 2 5 56.5 128 43.8
Tang, 2015 [48] 18 6 1 11 55.1 76 53.9 19.7 46.1
Terkawi, 2017 [213] 16 3 2 2 49.6 102 30
Tonning Olsson, 2021 [214] 16 1 2 1 32.2 2836 61.1 38.9 38.9
Tung, 2019 [215] 18 1 2 6 615 44.87
van de Luijtgaarden, 2014 [216] 17 2 2 11 45.7 24 93
van Eck, 2020 [217] 15 2 2 11 60 752 14
Variawa, 2016 [218] 18 5 2 5 58.54 92 38.04
Vuksanovic, 2021 [219] 16 6 2 5 130 34.4
Wang, 2021 [50] 16 3 2 5 75 4.5
Wilson, 2020 [220] 17 1 1 11 136 16.3

a 1 = North America; 2 = Europe; 3 = Asia; 4 = South America; 5 = Africa; 6 = Australia/New Zealand; b 1 = inpatient; 2 = outpatient; 3 = patient in a palliative care setting; 4 = all; 5 = other; c 1 = >3 types of cancer; 2 = head and neck; 3 = oesophagus, 4 = bronchus/lung; 5 = breast; 6 = gastro-intestinal; 7 = prostate; 8 = other, urological; 9 = gynaecological; 10 = haematological; 11 = other; d moderate–severe pain; e none–mild pain; f mild–moderate pain.