WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Atlas of palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021)
Report
11 Mar 2025
World Health Organization (WHO)
15 Feb 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed Guidelines for the pharmacologic and radiotherapeutic management of cancer pain in adults and adolescents to provide evidence-based guidance to initiating and managing cancer pain. The aims of these guidelines are to provide guidance to health-care providers (i.e. the end-users of these guidelines: physicians, nurses, pharmacists and caregivers) on the adequate relief of pain associated with cancer.