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NEPA as antiemetic prophylaxis after failure of 5HT
- Source :
- Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners. 27(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) may affect adherence to planned chemotherapy treatments and compromise patients' quality of life during the therapy. NEPA is an oral fixed combination of netupitant, a highly-selective NKEligible patients were undergoing carboplatin and gemcitabine combination chemotherapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ovarian cancer or urothelial cancer and experienced nausea and/or vomiting after the first cycle of chemotherapy, despite an antiemetic prophylaxis with a 5HTDuring the first cycle of chemotherapy, 15 out of 30 (50%) patients did not properly control CINV with a 5HTOur experience showed that NEPA has proven to be very effective and well tolerated in the prophylaxis of CINV induced by carboplatin-based chemotherapy.
Details
- ISSN :
- 1477092X
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid..........04af497ee3b29901b58294647e5b2cf0