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Successful treatment of chronic hiccup with baclofen in cancer patients
M Metin Seker1, Sercan Aksoy, Nuriye Yıldırım Ozdemir
1Department of Medical Oncology, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Medical Oncology (Northwood, London, England)
|March 29, 2011
Abstract:
Chronic hiccup is an infrequent but distressing symptom in patients with advanced cancer. A series of drugs (chlorpromazine, haloperidol, nifedipine, metoclopramide, baclofen) have been used to treat hiccup without definitive results. Some authors have suggested a possible role of baclofen in the treatment of chronic hiccup. We report three cases of chronic hiccup in patients with cancer successfully treated with baclofen.