Patients
pain, musculoskeletal pain, Cancer
RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT, FIBROMYALGIA, CANCER
To ensure participant diversity, our recruitment strategy included patient database queries, letter mailings, clinician referrals, and community outreach and engagement. Recruitment sites included Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, with a main campus in Manhattan and regional sites in New York (Westchester County, Long Island), New Jersey (Bergen, Monmouth, and Basking Ridge), and Florida (Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute).Patients were eligible if they were fluent in English or Spanish, they were older than 18 years, had a Karnofsky score greater than or equal to 60 (range, 0-100; with score of 60 indicating unable to work, able to live at home and care for most personal needs, with varying amount of assistance needed),To be eligible, patients must have also reported musculoskeletal pain, defined as regional (eg, specific joints) or generalized (ie, fibromyalgia), as the primary source of pain. The pain must have been present for at least 1 month and for at least 15 of the preceding 30 days. Patients must also have rated their worst pain intensity as 4 or greater on a numerical rating scale of 0 to 10. Patients were excluded if they had a platelet count less than 150 × 10