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Cancer Pain Release is the publication of the World Health Organization global communications program to improve cancer and HIV pain control and palliative care. Cancer Pain Release is dedicated to keeping a worldwide and multidisciplinary audience in the health professions and government abreast of relevant information and developments in clinical medicine, education and policy.

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Editor: Sophie M. Colleau, PhD
Editorial Advisory Board: Eduardo Bruera, MD (Houston, TX, USA), James F. Cleary, MD (Madison, WI, USA), Kathleen Foley, MD (New York, USA), Neil MacDonald, MD (Montreal, Canada), Cecilia Sepúlveda, MD (WHO-Geneva, Switzerland), Robert Twycross, FRCP (Oxford, England), Vittorio Ventafridda, MD (Milan, Italy).