Cancer pain is defined as and well-known to be constituted of multiple elements. For this reason, the need for the interdisciplinary care management is recommended by all levels of national and international expert guidelines. This includes authorities such as World Health Organization, International Association for the Study of Pain, National Institute of Health, National Comprehensive Cancer Network. They all emphasize a comprehensive approach that includes both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments tailored to the individual patient's needs. However, cancer pain is often managed only from medical/pharmacological standpoint in reality. As a result, adult/pediatric cancer patients are often left with undertreated or poorly controlled pain due to the lack of addressing the psychological, social, psychiatric, cultural and religious/spiritual factors contributing to the pain perception. The ideal practice would be to start integrative pain management early, by interdisciplinary collaboration, to deliver individually customized pain management and in a timely manner.

It is imperative to increase the awareness and knowledge level of the variety of involved providers in pain management and other medical professionals of different specialties treating cancer by using medication and/or procedures that elicit or contribute to cancer-related pain precipitation and exacerbation. Often times, the treating physicians' or other providers' lack of knowledge and time, due to the hesitance to involve certain specialties or the treating physician's misconstruing the severity of the adult/pediatric cancer pain. Furthermore, there are multiple associated and contributing factors to these common reasons for the gap. This activity is needed to provide education and promote awareness of the clinical and other providers about the aforementioned reasons for the gap.