Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18839220›Full record

Trial reportSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2009

Palonosetron (Aloxi) and dexamethasone for the prevention of acute and delayed nausea and vomiting in patients receiving multiple-day chemotherapy.

Maurizio Musso, Renato Scalone, Vincenza Bonanno, Alessandra Crescimanno, Vita Polizzi, Ferdinando Porretto, Carlo Bianchini, Tania Perrone

Abstract readClinical Trial
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Trial report in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Palonosetron and dexamethasone for the prevention of nausea and vomiting in patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014
    Trial
  2. Antiemetic efficacy of single-dose palonosetron and dexamethasone in patients receiving multiple cycles of multiple day-based chemotherapy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2012
    Trial
  3. Palonosetron for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in glioblastoma patients treated with temozolomide: a phase II study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2011
    Trial
  4. Trial
  5. Clinical research of Olanzapine for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2009
    Trial
  6. Global inequitable distribution of seminal studies of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Safety and pharmacokinetic evaluation of repeated intravenous administration of palonosetron 0.75 mg in patients receiving highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014
    Article
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Maurizio MussoOncology Department, Via San Lorenzo Colli 312/d, 90146, Palermo, Italy. mamusso@libero.it
Renato Scalone
Vincenza Bonanno
Alessandra Crescimanno
Vita Polizzi
Ferdinando Porretto
Carlo Bianchini
Tania Perrone
La Maddalena · ITItalfarmaco (Italy) · ITUniversity of Palermo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of palonosetron combined with dexamethasone in prevention of acute and delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients receiving multiple-day chemotherapy and the efficacy of a second dose of palonosetron in treating breakthrough emesis. MATERIALS AND

methodsForty-six patients treated with multiple-day chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies received palonosetron as prophylaxis for CINV on the first day of chemotherapy and dexamethasone throughout the entire period of chemotherapy. If breakthrough emesis occurred, a second dose of palonosetron was administered after 72 h following the first administration. The results were retrospectively compared to group of patients with similar clinical characteristics undergoing similar multiple-day chemotherapy. This group had received single-dose ondansetron as CINV prophylaxis on the first day of chemotherapy plus dexamethasone throughout the entire period of chemotherapy and metoclopramide for breakthrough emesis.

resultsOne hundred eighty and 173 chemotherapy cycles were administered in the palonosetron and ondansetron groups, respectively. Nausea and vomiting were absent in 80% of patients of the palonosetron group and 60% of the control group (p < 0.05). In the palonosetron group, 67% of patients who experienced CINV were successfully rescued by a second dose of palonosetron, while in the ondansetron group, only 22% showed a no CINV after metoclopramide treatment (p = 0.04).

conclusionsThe present results appear to be encouraging in terms of complete prophylaxis of CINV and treatment of breakthrough emesis in the setting of multiple-day chemotherapy.

Indexed as

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntiemeticsAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalDexamethasoneFemaleHematologic NeoplasmsHumansIsoquinolinesItalyMaleMiddle AgedNauseaAntiemeticsAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalDexamethasoneIsoquinolinesPalonosetronQuinuclidinesSerotonin Antagonists

Identifiers

PMID18839220
OpenAlexW1987963303

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.