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Nausea and vomiting are two of the most feared cancer treatment-related side-effects for cancer patients and their families.
In 1983, Coates et al.
found that patients receiving chemotherapy ranked nausea and vomiting as the first-and second-most-severe side-effects, respectively.
Up to 20 % of patients receiving highly emetogenic agents in this era postponed, or even refused, potentially curative treatments.
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting ( CINV ) are common with many treatments and some forms of cancer.
Since the 1990s, several novel classes of antiemetics have been developed and commercialized, becoming a nearly universal standard in chemotherapy regimens, and helping to successfully manage these symptoms in a large portion of patients.
Effective mediation of these unpleasant and sometimes-crippling symptoms results in increased quality of life for the patient and more efficient treatment cycles, due to less stoppage of treatment due to better tolerance by the patient, and due to better overall health of the patient.

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