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In light of this, the aim of the paper is to investigate whether the traditional trichotomy should be replaced by a dichotomy between acute pain and chronic pain, cancer-related pain being part of both groups depending on the duration of pain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The rationale for viewing cancer pain as a separate category is reviewed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cancer being a deadly disease, cancer pain has a life-and-death and existential dimension that is different from non-cancer pain. It seems sensible to believe that this is an additional dimension to the suffering caused by cancer pain, and that clinicians should therefore take this existential dimension into consideration when assessing pain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Without challenging the place of chronic cancer-related pain under the MG30 heading, it is concluded that while using ICD-11 in the future, pain clinicians should continue being mindful of the fact that the reality of death shapes the experience of cancer pain. 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