[Efforts of pharmacists in regimen management for safe cancer chemotherapy]

As a safe way to manage cancer chemotherapy, a regimen registration system of chemotherapies was started in our hospital in April of 2007. Only chemotherapies registered in the regimen system can be conducted. Beginning in July of 2007, to assure safer chemotherapy, a standard clinical value of laboratory data was established as the criteria to discontinue chemotherapies. The individual laboratory data have been checked according to the discontinuance criteria by pharmacists in our hospital. With the adoption of this regimen registration system for standardized procedures of various chemotherapies, laboratory data can be checked according to the criteria, and certain chemotherapies can now be discontinued. However, in certain cases some doctors proceeded chemotherapies although pharmacists suggested that laboratory data did not meet the criteria. It is important to keep checking the registered regimen and criteria. Pharmacists have to confirm the checking system based on the patient's condition and improve the regimen system of chemotherapy more clearly together with doctors and nurses.