WHO begins revision of Guidelines on the Management of Cancer Pain in Adults
A group of international palliative care experts were among those invited to advise on the revision of the WHO Guidelines on the Management of Cancer Pain in Adults at WHO Headquarters in Geneva from 28-29 July this year. The most recent version of WHO’s Cancer Pain Guidelines was published in 1996.
Civil Society organisations were invited to attend as observers of the process. These included: The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Médécins Sans Frontiéres, the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, the Union for International Cancer Control, and the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA).
This is the first effort, following the passage of the WHA resolution 67.19 on palliative care in 2014, to develop new global policy on symptom management. WHO Guidelines on the Pharmacological Treatment of Persisting Pain in Children with Medical Illnesses were published in 2012.
Read the complete report in ehospice.com
Photo: Dr Stephen Connor / ehospice
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