Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: exploring patients’ subjective experience
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Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: exploring patients’ subjective experience
BACKGROUND This study aimed to explore the subjective experience of nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy treatment among breast cancer patients and the impacts on their daily lives. METHODS A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in breast cancer patients who received chemotherapy and had experienced nausea and/or vomiting. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using...
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younger patient age, platinumor anthracyclinebased chemotherapy, low alcohol consumption, earlier cycles of chemotherapy, previous history of morning sickness, and prior emetic episodes after chemotherapy. The acute and delayed scoring systems both had good predictive accuracy when applied to the external validation sample (acute— auroc: 0.69; 95% confidence interval: 0.59 to 0.79; delayed—auro...
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Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) affects many cancer patients and has a great influence on quality of life. CINV involves coordination of several organs of the gastrointestinal tract, the peripheral and central nervous systems. Many neurotransmitters are involved in this process, and the predominant receptors are serotonin, neurokinin-1 and dopamine receptors. Risk factors for CI...
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In the past two decades, significant advances have been made in the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). These advances are primarily due to a greater understanding of the physiological and molecular pathways underlying CINV, which resulted in major progress in the management of patients with CINV. In the early 1990s, CINV treatment consisted of dex-amethasone [1]. Imp...
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Nausea and vomiting (N&V) is among the most distressing side effects of chemotherapy, despite the development of more efficacious antiemetic agents. As many as 60% of patients who receive cancer chemotherapy experience some degree of N&V. However, the actual incidence is difficult to determine with accuracy because of the variety of drugs, doses, and health conditions of the patients who receiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1178-2390
DOI: 10.2147/jmdh.s97695