Guidelines versus individualized care for the management of CINV
1Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada. mclemons@toh.ca.
Abstract:
Numerous groups have published guidelines for the prevention and management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). The current management of CINV, however, remains suboptimal, due in part to poor adherence to existing antiemetic guidelines. Challenges in clinical trial design have also slowed progress and complicated the selection of optimal antiemetic therapy. In addition, patient-specific characteristics and factors are not included in current CINV guidelines and are an important contributor to an individual's risk for nausea and vomiting. CINV risk prediction algorithms have now emerged and provide the opportunity to individualize antiemetic prophylaxis. Further studies are underway to examine the precise role for risk model-guided antiemetic prophylaxis in patients with cancer.
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