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The cancer pain relief programme of the World Health Organization

Cancer Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva

Noreen Teoh

Cancer Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva

At any one time 14 million people suffer from cancer. The WHO has established a Global Cancer Control Programme aimed at prevention, detection, therapy and pain relief. Much has been achieved in the 1980s, but an expanded programme is planned for the 1990s.

Key Words: analgesia • neoplasms • pain • palliative treatment • world health • World Health Organization

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1-3 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/026921639000400102


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