• Task Force for Cancer Pain Management, Uriah Guevara-López, Alfredo Govarrubias-Gómez, Francisco J Ochoa-Carrillo, Armando Fernández-Orozco, and Fernando Bernal-Sahagún.
• Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvaldor Zubirán, Secretaría de Salud, Unidad de Medicina de Alta Especialidad Magdalena de las Salinas, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México. uriahguevara@yahoo.com.mx
• Cir Cir. 2006 Sep 1; 74 (5): 381-96.

AbstractCancer pain is a frequent medical problem in our society. This syndrome affects from 80 to 90% of cancer patients and can be solved with relatively simple measures in 90% of the cases. Approximately 40% of cancer patients reported to be unsatisfied with the physician or nurse about their pain management. For these reasons, we gathered a task force in order to generate practice guidelines based on medical evidence and on the opinion of experts in this area. These guidelines were generated by a task force of 31 physicians who were leaders in this field and based on 599 papers selected by a previous literature search. This group evaluated the results of this search in three work sessions, during which a level of evidence was assigned to each recommendation.

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