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Management of Cancer Pain (Second Edition)
GUIDELINES DEVELOPMENT AND OBJECTIVES
GUIDELINES DEVELOPMENT

The members of the DG for this CPG were from the Ministry of
Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Higher Education. There was active
involvement of a multidisciplinary Review Committee during the process
of the CPG development.
A systematic literature search was conducted using the following
electronic databases/platforms: Medline via Ovid and Embase. Refer
to Appendix 1 for an Example of Search Strategy. The inclusion
criteria are cancer patients with pain regardless of study design. The
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until 2023) for most clinical questions on humans and in English. In
addition, the reference lists of all retrieved literature and guidelines
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relevant studies. All searches were conducted from 21 February 2022
to 21 October 2022. The literature search was repeated for all clinical
questions at the end of the CPG development process allowing any
relevant papers published before 30 June 2023 to be included. Future
CPG updates will consider evidence published after this cut-off date.
The details of the search strategy can be obtained upon request from
the CPG Secretariat.

References were also made to other guidelines on cancer pain as listed
below:
• World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for the Pharmacological
and Radiotherapeutic Management of Cancer Pain in Adults and
Adolescents 2018
• Management of Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: European Society for
Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical Practice Guidelines 2018
• European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical Practice
Guidelines in Oncology - Adult Cancer Pain 2019
• Use of Opioids for Adults with Pain from Cancer or Cancer Treatment:
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Guideline 2023
• Paediatric Pain Management Guidelines 2023
• The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Pain Management Practice
Guideline 2021
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer Pain -
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• Handbook of Children’s Palliative Care Malaysia 2021
• Latin-American guidelines for cancer pain management 2017
• CRIS Cancer Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management in
Children with Cancer 2013

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