Highlights This ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline provides key recommendations for end-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer. It details care that is focused on comfort, quality of life and approaching death of patients with advanced cancer. All recommendations were compiled by a multidisciplinary group of experts. Recommendations are based on available scientific data and the authors’ collective expert opinion.

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The opioid induced constipation (OIC) is an emerging clinical problems that worsen the patients' quality of life requiring opioids for their pain relief. Many drugs have been launched as Peripheral Acting Mu Opioid Receptor Antagonists o PAMORAs (metylnaltrexone, alvimopam and more recently naloxegol), which antagonize the peripheral effects of opioids without affecting the opioids analgesia. Metylnaltrenone and naloxegol have been licensed for the treatment of CIO, meanwhile alvimopam is approved for the recovery of postoperative ileus after major abdominal surgery. All PAMORAs have shown clinical efficacy but is a matter of debate wich should be their role in the manangement of the CIO. The available information about PAMORAs is reviewed and informed strategy on the use of these drugs is proposed.

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