[Salmon calcitonin in metastatic bone pain. Demonstration of acute analgesia in tumor patients].

Infusion of 200 IU Calcitonin-Sandoz in 20 of 44 hospitalized patients with malignant tumor suffering from chronic severe pain due to bone metastases, reduced the intensity of pain and with it the need for analgesics for an average of 10 hours. The result points to an analgesic potential of salmon-calcitonin.

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