Dosing Chemotherapy in Obese Patients

Appropriate Systemic Therapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With ...

Recommendations. The Panel continues to recommend that full, weight-based cytotoxic chemotherapy doses be used to treat obese adults with cancer ...

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With ...

Recommendation 2.1: The Panel recommends that full weight–based chemotherapy doses (IV and oral) be used in the treatment of the obese patient with cancer, ...

Appropriate chemotherapy dosing for obese adult patients with cancer

The Panel recommends that full weight-based cytotoxic chemotherapy doses be used to treat obese patients with cancer, particularly when the ...

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients with ...

ASCO published this guideline to highlight the fact that many overweight and obese patients receive limited or reduced chemotherapy doses and discusses the ...

ASCO Releases New Recommendations on Systemic Therapy ...

However, studies have shown that capping of the chemotherapy dose may result in underdosing of patients who are obese.” Based on available ...

Antineoplastic dosing in overweight and obese cancer patients

Although chemotherapy efficacy and toxicity are still highly variable between individual patients despite normalization based on BSA dosing, ...

Chemotherapy dosing in overweight and obese patients with cancer

Evidence indicates that reductions in recommended doses of chemotherapy often occur among obese patients with cancer.

Conditioning Chemotherapy Dose Adjustment in Obese Patients

Dose on ABW25 in adults (obese and nonobese) receiving per kilogram dosing or BSA based on TBW for m2 dosing. All regimens >12 mg/kg PO equivalent are ...

Dosing Chemotherapy in Obese Patients, Still Not Answered

The current study by Zink and colleagues suggests that for obese patients, an adjusted body weight dose reduction of high-dose chemotherapy in the transplant ...

Dosing chemotherapy in obese patients: Actual versus assigned ...

The study reported that 72.9% (132 of 181) cap obese patient dosing at a BSA of 2 m2 or opt to incorporate ideal body weight into patient dosing schema. Field ...

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With ...

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With. Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)'s Clinical Practice. Guideline. Contents ...

Obesity and chemotherapy administration: between empiric and ...

In routine clinical practices, chemotherapy doses in obese patients are arbitrarily capped or adjusted to an ideal weight to avoid excessive toxicities. However ...

ASCO Issues New Guideline on Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese ...

Full weight-based dosing should be used for morbidly obese patients, and treatment-related toxicities in obese patients with cancer should be ...

Conditioning Chemotherapy Dose Adjustment in Obese Patients

Dose on ABW25 in adults (obese and nonobese) receiving per kilogram dosing or BSA based on TBW for m2 dosing. All regimens >12 mg/kg PO equivalent are ...

Dosing Chemotherapy in Obese Adult Acute Myelogenous ...

It appears the switch from AdjBW to ABW dosing in obese patients did not have a significant effect on the efficacy and toxicity of '7+3' induction chemotherapy ...

Appropriate chemotherapy dosing in obese patients with cancer

Thus, the primary recommendation of the guideline panel is to avoid arbitrary dose reductions in these patients based on fear of excess toxicity ...

Guidelines on Chemotherapy Dosing in Obese Adult Patients

ASCO (2012) recommended that a full weight-based cytotoxic chemotherapy doses can be used in the treatment of the obese patient with cancer, particularly when ...

Obese patients | Cancer Australia

Nine studies were identified which included obese patient populations and compared outcomes by BMI or by obesity. In most of the studies, chemotherapy dosing ...

Dosing chemotherapy in obese patients: Actual versus assigned ...

Unfortunately, oncology drug development and most clinical trials fail to address the problem of appropriate chemotherapy dosing in obese patients. This can ...

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With ...

The Panel recommends that full weight-based cytotoxic chemotherapy doses be used to treat obese patients with cancer, particularly when the goal of treatment is ...