Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Cancer pain".)

International

●International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG): Recommendations for treatment of multiple myeloma-related bone disease (2021)

●IMWG: Consensus statement and guidelines regarding the current role of imaging techniques in the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma (2009)

●IMWG: Consensus statement on the role of vertebral augmentation in multiple myeloma (2008)

Canada

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Malignant extradural spinal cord compression – Diagnosis and management (2012)

United States

●American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO): Guideline on palliative radiation therapy for bone metastases, update (2017)

Europe

●European Hematology Association (EHA)-European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Multiple myeloma – Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2021)

●ESMO: Clinical practice guidelines on bone health in cancer patients (2020)

●European Myeloma Network (EMN): Guidelines for the management of multiple myeloma-related complications (2015)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on metastatic spinal cord compression in adults (2014)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on metastatic spinal cord compression in adults – Risk assessment, diagnosis and management (2008)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on balloon kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures (2006)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous vertebroplasty (2003)

Australia-New Zealand

●Cancer Australia: Recommendations for the management of central nervous system (CNS) metastases in women with secondary breast cancer (2014)

●Cancer Council Australia (CCA): Management of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer (2010)

Japan

●Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO), Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA), Japanese Urological Association (JUA), and Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology (JASTRO): Comprehensive guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of bone metastasis (2016)

●Japanese Society of Palliative Medicine (JSPM): Clinical guideline for pharmacological management of cancer pain (2013)