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RATIONALE: The use of a nicotine inhaler may help decrease appetite and relieve "hunger pain" (an intense craving for food) in patients with malignant bowel obstruction caused by cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying the side effects and how well a nicotine inhaler works in treating "hunger pain" in patients with malignant bowel obstruction caused by cancer.
Inclusion criteria
- Anorexia,Constipation, Impaction, and Bowel Obstruction,pain,Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment,Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific