Open AccessPattern and impact of drugs targeted toward toxicity amelioration in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy
Author(s) -
Shruti Singh,
Prashant Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
perspectives in clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2229-5488
pISSN - 2229-3485
DOI - 10.4103/picr.picr_156_16
Subject(s) - medicine , drug , nausea , ototoxicity , pharmacology , intensive care medicine , drug reaction , cancer , chemotherapy , cisplatin
Drug therapy today is remarkably safe and efficacious. Still, some drugs - particularly anticancer drugs - are fraught with numerous adverse drug reactions (ADRs), severely jeopardizing quality of life of cancer patients. Fortunately, most of these ADRs are preventable provided adequate prophylactic drugs are administered along with chemotherapy.