Adherence to Therapy With Oral Antineoplastic Agents
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Adherence to therapy with oral antineoplastic agents.
With the rise in availability and increasing use of oral anticancer agents, concerns about adherence to prescribed regimens will become an increasingly important issue in oncology. Few published studies have focused on adherence to oral antineoplastic therapy, in part because the vast majority of chemotherapy is delivered intravenously in physicians' offices or hospitals. In this article, we re...
متن کاملRe: Adherence to therapy with oral antineoplastic agents.
Partridge et al. provided an excellent and timely review on patient compliance issues of prescribed oral therapy (1). This important area merits the attention of every oncology clinician, in view of the increasing number of new oral antineoplastic agents. The review would have been more complete, however, if it had pointed out that pharmacist involvement in patient education is essential in ach...
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OBJECTIVES The increase in oral anticancer medications with complex regimens creates a need to assure that patients are taking therapeutic dosages as prescribed. This article reviews the assessment and measurement of adherence to oral antineoplastic agents. DATA SOURCES Research and journal articles from CINAHL and PubMed. CONCLUSION Assessing and measuring adherence to oral antineoplastics...
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The issue of medication noncompliance is becoming increasingly important in oncology as more cancer therapies are delivered orally. Medication adherence is difficult to assess and there is no gold standard of measurement. The act of measuring adherence can affect outcomes. Medication noncompliance is common, and is estimated to be 50% in treatment of chronic diseases. Studies have shown that wo...
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عنوان ژورنال: CancerSpectrum Knowledge Environment
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/94.9.652