Conversion to the fentanyl treatment Matrifen® helps to ease chronic pains

Conversion to the fentanyl treatment Matrifen® from Nycomed helps to ease severe chronic pains, such as cancer pain and low back pain.

Conversion to the fentanyl treatment patch Matrifen® provides rapid and long lasting relief for patients with chronic pain.

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Conversion to the fentanyl treatment patch Matrifen® provides pain relief in patients with prolonged or chronic severe pain. Following application of the patch to the skin, fentanyl is released into the systemic circulation by passive cutaneous diffusion.

Fentanyl has a high affinity for receptors located throughout the peripheral nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord, and binding to the receptors cause analgesia. 

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Nycomed is driving a new way of providing pharmaceutical products in Europe. Physicians are seeking new treatments that make a clear medical difference. But traditional pharmaceutical companies, with a single research department, are finding it harder to meet this need.

Nycomed, by contrast, can access the work of thousands of companies dedicated to research, and choose to make available the most innovative treatments.

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