Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with cancer pain receiving any of the following treatments constantly for at
least 3days before the treatment period :(1)Morphine preparations equivalent to less
than 45 mg/day of oral morphine (or less than 30 mg/day of suppositories, or less
than 15 mg/day of injectable preparations), (2)oral oxycodone preparations equivalent
to less than 30 mg/day, (3)Fentanyl citrate injectable solution equivalent to less
than 0.3 mg/day

- Patients with a pain intensity of less than or equal to 34 mm on the 100 mm Visual
Analogue Scale (VAS)

- Patients with an established diagnosis of cancer of any type who have been notified
of the disease

- Patients may be hospitalized during application of the initial transdermal dose of
fentanyl transdermal matrix patch (patients may be ambulatory after the initial patch
has been replaced with the second dose)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with respiratory dysfunction such as chronic pulmonary disease

- Patients with asthma

- Patients with bradyarrhythmia

- Patients with concurrent liver and/or kidney dysfunction according to the latest
laboratory test values within 14 days before the start of the pre-treatment
observation period

- Patients with organic brain disorder such as elevated intracranial pressure,
disturbance of consciousness/coma, or brain tumor

- Patients with any psychoneurologic complication and judged incapable of self
assessment

- Patients with a history of drug dependency or narcotic abuse

- Patients with a history of hypersensitivity to fentanyl or any other opioid analgesic