Do you overprescribe antiemetic drugs to your patients? Antiemetic drugs are generally prescribed to patients undergoing chemotherapy to control their nausea. However, recently there has been lot of concern regarding the overuse of antiemetic drugs for chemotherapy patients with minimal or low emetic risk. Here we discuss the concern and the appropriate steps that need to be taken for proper use of antiemetic drugs in chemo patients.
Chemotherapy has been many times a treatment of choice along with surgery to manage and cure cancer. There has been immense work done in past two decades on various antiemetic drugs to control the toxic effects of the chemotherapy. Recently, there has been substantial advancement in the development of antiemetic drugs like serotonin receptor antagonists and neurokin-1 receptor antagonists . These drugs have been a blessing to the cancer patients and have…
