Vol 5, No 4 (2014)
Review paper
Published online: 2015-03-06
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting — guidelines of prophylaxis in patients treated for myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms
Hematologia 2014;5(4):332-339.
Abstract
Nausea and vomiting (NV) constitute the most frequent adverse events of antineoplastic therapy. This paper summarizes the actual state-of-art in chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced NV, provides information about antiemetic drugs, gives tools to assess the risk of NV with practical examples of therapy planning according to guidelines.
Keywords: nausea and vomitingprophylaxis