The role of opioids in cancer pain.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Treatment of cancer pain: Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) recommendations for clinical practice.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2012
   Guideline
2. Bicentre, randomized, parallel-arm, sham-controlled trial of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of palliative care patients with refractory cancer pain.BMC palliative care · 2023
   Trial
3. EMPOWER: an intervention to address barriers to pain management in hospice.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2015
   Trial
4. A randomized study of lubiprostone for opioid-induced constipation in patients with chronic noncancer pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2014
   Trial
5. Dying as a 'normal', 'ordinary' or 'natural' process in palliative care: a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis.BMC palliative care · 2026
   Article
6. The role of ketamine and its enantiomer in managing depression and pain in cancer patients: A narrative review.Journal of anesthesia and translational medicine · 2024
   Article
7. The Efficacy of Ketamine for Acute and Chronic Pain in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
   Review
8. Nomogram for predicting opioid-induced nausea and vomiting for cancer pain patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
   Article
9. Shedding Light on the Pharmacological Interactions between μ-Opioid Analgesics and Angiotensin Receptor Modulators: A New Option for Treating Chronic Pain.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
   Review
10. Assessment tools for problematic opioid use in palliative care: A scoping review.Palliative medicine · 2021
    Article
11. The Development of a Macromolecular Analgesic for Arthritic Pain.Molecular pharmaceutics · 2019
    Article
12. Aquaporins in the Colon as a New Therapeutic Target in Diarrhea and Constipation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
    Review
13. Enhanced GABAergic synaptic transmission at VLPAG neurons and potent modulation by oxycodone in a bone cancer pain model.British journal of pharmacology · 2015
    Article
14. Dosing considerations with transdermal formulations of fentanyl and buprenorphine for the treatment of cancer pain.Journal of pain research · 2014
    Review
15. Opioid induced bowel disease: a twenty-first century physicians' dilemma. Considering pathophysiology and treatment strategies.Current gastroenterology reports · 2013
    Review
16. Treatment of pain in children after limb-sparing surgery: an institution's 26-year experience.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2011
    Article
17. Methylnaltrexone: the evidence for its use in the management of opioid-induced constipation.Core evidence · 2010
    Article
18. Methylnaltrexone.Drugs · 2010
    Review
19. Opioid-induced bowel dysfunction: prevalence, pathophysiology and burden.International journal of clinical practice · 2007
    Review
20. [Chronic pain therapy for patients with head and neck tumors].HNO · 2006
    Article

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Authors and funding

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