This certainly is another step in helping cancer patients lead relatively normal, active lives. There has been much concern from the FDA over the medicated lozenge formulation and apprehension that children may accidentally get hold of the potent medication. Just as with every other potent medication, every precaution has been made to keep Actiq from getting into the hands of children and from adults who are not already being treated for cancer pain. Actiq should be used for only those patients already taking narcotics to alleviate their chronic cancer pain. Because it is such a stong pain medicine, patients must be taking other opoids before it can be safely used.
Physicians now have yet another tool against battling the effects of cancer.
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