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Trial reportCancer medicine2020

Efficacy of NEPA, a fixed antiemetic combination of netupitant and palonosetron, vs a 3-day aprepitant regimen for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in Chinese patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC) in a randomized Phase 3 study.

Jianhua Chang, Gongyan Chen, Dong Wang, Guihua Wang, Shun Lu, Jifeng Feng, Wei Li, Ping Li, Corinna Lanzarotti, Salvatore Chessari and 1 more

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Cancer medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. 2023 updated MASCC/ESMO consensus recommendations: prevention of nausea and vomiting following high-emetic-risk antineoplastic agents.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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  5. 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
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  13. Prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in the real-world setting in Spain.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2021
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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

11 authors at 10 institutions in 2 countries.

Jianhua ChangFudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.
Gongyan ChenAffiliated Tumour Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Dong WangThe Third Affiliated Hospital of Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Guihua WangChangsha Central Hospital, Changsha, China.
Shun LuShanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Jifeng FengJiangsu Cancer Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital, Nanjing, China.
Wei LiThe First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Ping LiWest China School of Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Corinna LanzarottiHelsinn Healthcare, Lugano, Switzerland.
Salvatore ChessariHelsinn Healthcare, Lugano, Switzerland.
Li ZhangSun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6672-4808
Helsinn (Switzerland) · CHArmy Medical University · CNChangsha Central Hospital · CNFudan University Shanghai Cancer Center · CNHarbin Medical University · CNJiangsu Cancer Hospital · CNJilin University · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CNSichuan University · CNSun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NEPA is the only fixed combination antiemetic, comprised of an NK

Indexed as

AntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsAprepitantBenzeneacetamidesChinaDouble-Blind MethodEmeticsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNauseaPalonosetronPiperazinesPyridinesVomitingAntiemeticsAntineoplastic AgentsAprepitantBenzeneacetamidesEmeticsnetupitantPalonosetronPiperazinesPyridinesantiemeticaprepitantCINVNEPApalonosetron

Identifiers

PMID32472742
PMCPMC7367622
OpenAlexW3031581155

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