Palliation of nausea and vomiting in malignancy.
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symptoms that can cause enormous misery for cancer patients, undermining quality of life and contributing to weakness, anorexia and nutritional problems.1 Evidence-based recommendations for the management of treatment-induced emesis are available, but the management of nausea arising as a consequence of the disease itself is less well researched. This article summarises palliative care guidelines derived from animal models and validated in a range of human studies.2,3 Mechanisms of nausea and vomiting
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical medicine
دوره 6 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006