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Olanzapine combined with 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor antagonist (5-HT3 RA) plus dexamethasone for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in high and moderate emetogenic chemotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Jian-Guo Zhou, Lang Huang, Su-Han Jin, Cheng Xu, Benjamin Frey, Hu Ma, Udo S Gaipl

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in ESMO open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Signal mining and risk analysis of olanzapine adverse events in the FAERS database.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025
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  7. Insomnia among Cancer Patients in the Real World: Optimising Treatments and Tailored Therapies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  9. Premedications for Cancer Therapies: A Primer for the Hematology/Oncology Provider.Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology · 2021
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  12. Now we are 30: 10 more years of MASCC.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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  14. The Benefits of Olanzapine in Palliating Symptoms.Current treatment options in oncology · 2020
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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jian-Guo Zhou *Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5021-3739
Lang Huang *Department of Oncology, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, China.
Su-Han Jin *Department of Orthodontics, Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Cheng XuDepartment of Oncology, Guangyuan Central Hospital, Guangyuan, China.
Benjamin FreyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Hu MaDepartment of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China mahuab@163.com Udo.Gaipl@uk-erlangen.de.
Udo S GaiplDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany mahuab@163.com Udo.Gaipl@uk-erlangen.de.
Zunyi Medical University · CNTaiyuan Central Hospital · CNUniversitätsklinikum Erlangen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We performed a pooled analysis to evaluate the efficacy and adverse events (AEs) of olanzapine combined with dexamethasone plus 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor antagonist (5-HT3 RA) compared with 5-HT3 RA plus dexamethasone for the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in high and moderate emetogenic chemotherapy based on randomised controlled trials (RCTs). PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, China Biomedical Literature database (CBM), WanFang Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP) (from their inception to April 2019) were searched to capture relevant articles. Relative risk with 95% confidence intervals for CINV and AEs were all extracted or calculated. Eleven studies with 1107 cancer patients were involved in this review. The pooled RR of delayed CINV (RR 0.50, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.66; p<0.01) were significantly decreased in the olanzapine group. The occurrence of insomnia was also statistically decreased, as was the rate of acute CINV (RR 0.60, 95% CI 0.48 to 0.75; p<0.01). However, only the percentages of CINV III and CINV IV were significantly decreased in the acute and delayed phases. Subgroup analysis demonstrated that the efficacy was not statistically significantly different between 5 mg and 10 mg olanzapine. Olanzapine significantly decreased the occurrence of CINV III and IV and insomnia in high and moderately emetogenic chemotherapy. Compared with 10 mg per day, 5 mg oral olanzapine may be more appropriate for patients with cancer.

Indexed as

AntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsDexamethasoneHumansNauseaOlanzapineRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSerotonin 5-HT3 Receptor AntagonistsVomitingAntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsDexamethasoneOlanzapineSerotonin 5-HT3 Receptor Antagonists5-HT3 RAchemotherapy-induced nausea and Vomitingdexamethasonemeta-analysisolanzapine

Identifiers

PMID32079622
PMCPMC7046384
OpenAlexW3007545839

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