The nurse conducts a pain assessment on a client who has terminal breast cancer with extensive metastasis. The client tells the nurse, "Nothing helps the pain." Which documentation regarding this client's pain is the most appropriate?

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Intractable pain refers to pain that cannot be controlled or relieved by medication or treatment. This is an appropriate documentation for the client with terminal breast cancer with extensive metastasis who reports that nothing helps the pain. The other options are not appropriate as they do not accurately describe the type or nature of the client's pain.

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