Opioids for cancer-related pain in children and adolescents.

CONCLUSIONS: No conclusions can be drawn about efficacy or harm in the use of opioids to treat chronic cancer-related pain in children and adolescents. As a result, there is no RCT evidence to support or refute the use of opioids to treat cancer-related pain in children and adolescents.
PMID: 28722116 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wiffen PJ, Cooper TE, Anderson AK, Gray AL, Grégoire MC, Ljungman G, Zernikow B Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research