[Treatment of intractable pain in ORL cancer]

Numerous effective treatments are available to relieve the intractable pain of terminal E.N.T. cancers when aetiological therapies are no longer of any use. These treatments must be prescribed as a progressive therapeutic scale ranging from analgesics, and notably morphine which remains the basic drug, to the classical or stereotactic surgical operations. To these must now be added other routes of administration of morphine (e.g. intraventricularly) which in some cases give unexpected results.