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The Matrifen® fentanyl patch relieves your pain

The Matrifen® fentanyl patch from Nycomed provides pain relief for patients with chronic pain such as cancer pain and low back pain.

The Matrifen® fentanyl patch by Nycomed eases your painThe fentanyl patch Matrifen® provides excelent relief in patients with severe chronic pain.

>> Information on the fentanyl patch Matrifen®

The transdermal fentanyl patch Matrifen® with efficient fentanyl patch technology releases fentanyl over a 72 hour period for fast and effective relief of pains such as cancer pain, low back pain, naturopathic pain, nociceptive pain and other chronic pains.

The transdermal fentanyl patch has been shown to have fewer side effects compared to morphine tablets and other oral formulations of opiod analgesics.

The efficient and advanced fentanyl patch technology provides pain relief for cancer related as well as non cancer related pains and the lower drug load adds to a higher degree of safety and lower environmental burden.

About Nycomed
Nycomed is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to meeting needs in Europe. The company provides hospital products throughout the region and general practitioner and pharmacy medicines in selected markets.

New products are sourced through licensing agreements with research companies. Here Nycomed provides late-stage clinical development, registration and marketing. Nycomed employs about 3,500 people throughout Europe and Russia-CIS.

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Mode of action video

An animation presenting the Matrifen® patch;
- Application
- Mode of action

Additional material

- Product details
- Pharmacokinetics
- Technical profile
Conversion tables for download 

- Oral morphine to Matrifen (100:1)
- Oral morphine to Matrifen (150:1)
- Potency table