Proclorperazine for the Treatment of Nausea and Vomiting in Patients with Advanced Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
- 3 January 1957
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 256 (1) , 27-28
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195701032560107
Abstract
IN patients with advanced cancer and other debilitating chronic diseases nausea and vomiting appear frequently, and often for no obvious reason. These are trying and exhausting complications. Effective antiemetic agents are therefore valuable adjuncts in the care of such patients.Proclorperazine has been described as a more effective agent than other members of the phenothiazine series currently in use.1 Its value in chronically ill patients with nausea and vomiting has accordingly been investigated, to compare its performance with our experiences obtained with other drugs.2 Plan of StudyForty unselected patients with nausea or vomiting, or both, were included in this . . .Keywords
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- Chlorpromazine in Patients with Nausea and Vomiting Due to Advanced CancerNew England Journal of Medicine, 1954