Comparison of the effectiveness of olanzapine, metoclopramide and domperidone for controlling chemotherapy related nausea and vomiting
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: C00-D49- Neoplasms
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1.Histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant disease
2.Chemotherapy naïve patients
3.Scheduled to receive intravenous either single or multiday highly emetogenetic chemotherapy regimens or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy regimens
1.Patients with nausea in 24 h prior to beginning of chemotherapy
2.serum creatinine of >2.0 mg/dl, serum bilirubin of >2.0 mg/dl, SGOT or SGPT values of >3 times the upper limits of normal
3.Pregnant patients
4.Patients on chemotherapy for leukemia.
5.Esophageal and stomach malignancies are excluded from the study.
6.Patients on continuous, intermittent or concomitant oral chemotherapy
7.Patients on continuous, intermittent or concomitant oral chemotherapy or on opioid (morphine) treatment for pain control.
8.Patients with known hypersensitivity to olanzapine, metoclopramide or domperidone,
9.Patients with cardiac arrhythmia, history of congestive heart failure, or acute myocardial infarction within the previous 6 months.
10.Patients with known history of CNS disease (e.g., brain metastases, seizure disorder), or treatment with any antipsychotic agents such as risperidone, quetiapine, clozapine, phenothiazine or butyrophenone for 30 days prior to or during protocol therapy.
11.Patients with concurrent abdominal radiotherapy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method