Therapy goals
- Pain relief
- Diagnosis finding
Therapy recommendations
- Symptomatic therapy (analgesia/pain relief) until definitive therapy when diagnosis is confirmed according to WHO staging scheme:
- Non-opioid analgesic (paracetamol, first-line agent).
- Low-potency opioid analgesic (e.g., tramadol) + non-opioid analgesic.
- High-potency opioid analgesic (eg, morphine) + non-opioid analgesic.
- See also under “Further therapy“.