TY - JOUR T1 - Commentary: This pain is killing me JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - e112 LP - e112 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X483805 VL - 60 IS - 572 AU - Blair H Smith Y1 - 2010/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/572/e112.abstract N2 - The article by Jordan and Croft reports the latest in a series of studies that have examined possible links between the presence of musculoskeletal disease and subsequent mortality and/or cancer.1 Other studies have reported somewhat conflicting results, with varying strengths and degrees of specificity of associations found. Significant relationships between mortality and pain, dependent upon the location, type or extent of pain, have been reported,2–4 with most of the excess mortality associated with widespread pain attributable to cancer.5 Other links have been suggested between widespread pain and increased cancer and cardiovascular mortality,6,7 and between severe chronic pain and overall mortality … ER -