Role of pharmacists in the safe and efficient care of patients receiving cancer treatment

• In: Cancer patients: long haul care on Thursday, 1 September 2016, 16:05-16:40
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Presentation
• By: IKESUE, Hiroaki (Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Kobe, Japan)
• Co-author(s): Hiroaki Ikesue:Department of Pharmacy,Kyushu University Hospital,Fukuoka,Japan|Hiroyuki Watanabe:Department of Pharmacy,Kyushu University Hospital,Fukuoka,Japan|Satohiro Masuda:Department of Pharmacy,Kyushu University Hospital,Fukuoka,Japan
  
• Abstract:

  To maximize the effectiveness and safety of cancer treatment in each patient, pharmacists play important roles in a multidisciplinary team. Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is one of the most uncontrollable adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with cancer treatment. Aprepitant, a neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, is highly

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