Supportive Care

Palonosetron administered with a single-dose of dexamethasone adequately controlled nausea and vomiting associated with non-anthracycline-based moderately emetogenic chemotherapy when compared with a longer duration of dexamethasone.

A treatment intended to control chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting that combines netupitant and palonosetron demonstrated superior activity in complete response rates over oral palonosetron monotherapy.

For the prevention of nausea and vomiting after the first day of cisplatin-based chemotherapy, both aprepitant and metoclopramide when used in combination with dexamethasone were found to be similarly effective.

Declan Walsh, MSc, FACP, FRCP, director, 2014 MASCC/ISOO International Symposium, discusses the under-diagnosis of malnutrition in palliative medicine.

Alex Molasiotis, RN, PhD, discusses the results of a pilot feasibility study looking at inspiratory muscle training for the management of breathlessness in patients with lung cancer.

Fausto Roila, MD, chair, Medical Oncology Division, S. Maria Hospital, Terni, Italy, discusses an analysis of aprepitant for the prevention of cisplatin-induced delayed emesis.

Dorothy M. K. Keefe, MD, FRACP, past president, MASCC, director, SA Cancer Service, professor of cancer medicine, University of Adelaide, discusses links between toxicities associated with anticancer drugs.

Haralambos Raftopoulos, MD, associate professor, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, discusses pulmonary toxicity with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).

Ã…ge Schultz, DVM, PhD, executive director, Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), discusses pain management and the cost of supportive care medicine.