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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2014

Breakthrough cancer pain.

Andrew N Davies

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A scoping review of breakthrough cancer pain: mapping the evidence landscape.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  13. Pharmacologic management of adult breakthrough cancer pain.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014
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  14. Response to letter to the editor: "safety profile of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia for breakthrough pain in cancer patients: a case series study".Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew N DaviesConsultant in Palliative Medicine, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road,, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XX, UK, adavies12@nhs.net.
Royal Surrey County Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breakthrough pain is a distinct pain state that is common in patients with cancer pain and which is associated with significant morbidity in this group of patients. The aim of this article is to highlight important journal articles relating to breakthrough pain that have been published within the last year, including a systematic review of the epidemiology of breakthrough pain, the largest-ever study of the clinical features of breakthrough pain, and a network meta-analysis of the treatment of breakthrough pain.

Indexed as

Administration, MucosalAnalgesics, OpioidBreakthrough PainNeoplasmsFemaleHumansMaleMorphineNetwork Meta-Analysis as TopicPain MeasurementSystematic Reviews as TopicAnalgesics, OpioidMorphine

Identifiers

PMID24760489
OpenAlexW2119739355

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.