Q: What are the first-line drugs for cancer pain?

Because of this, erythromycin tends not to be prescribed as a first-line drug.

Resistance to first-line drugs in most of the pathogens causing these diseases ranges from zero to almost 100%.

Persistence with first-line single antihypertensive drugs is extremely low during the first year of treatment.

But as patients become resistant to their first-line drugs, doctors must have new options.

Quinine remained the first-line antimalarial drug of choice until the 1940s, when other drugs replaced it.

The first-line drugs are cheap and have few side effects.

It has been proposed as the first-line drug of choice for empirical treatment of acute cystitis.

Valproate is also considered a first-line drug for treating partial seizures.

Most African countries have used chloroquine as their first-line drug since 1970.