morning sickness/neoplasms

Certain autonomic variables have been shown to be responsive to motion induced nausea and vomiting. Here we report preliminary data on changes in heart rate, blood volume pulse, pallor and skin temperature assessed during a one hour period at baseline, a one hour period of peak nausea, and a one

OBJECTIVE Ondansetron (Zofran) is a drug used for the treatment of nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy. Despite the fact that it is not indicated, women are being prescribed this drug for the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP). There is a paucity of information on

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of nausea and vomiting 2 to 5 days after oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. METHODS Sixty-four patients (55% men; 44% women) enrolled onto this cross-sectional study. Fifty-three (83%) had colon cancer and received oxaliplatin biweekly. Eleven (17%) had rectal cancer

Thalidomide was used in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a sedative for morning sickness in pregnant women. It resulted in thousands of babies being born with various congenital anomalies, such as phocomelia. Subsequently, the drug was banned for this indication. Most of the survivors have become

Successful termination of a pregnancy and delivery of a normal infant in a young woman with Krukenberg tumor is reported. This association has rarely been described previously. The persistent gastrointestinal symptoms mimicking the early nausea and vomiting of pregnancy mask the presentation of a

Music therapy was used on a patient in the terminal stage of cancer who described a fantastic tale built around her imagined pregnancy. We believe that psychiatric intervention was successful through the introduction of music therapy as part of her palliative treatment. Particularly notable in this

Most anticancer drugs are teratogens, merely because they target vital cellular functions. Conversely, some plants produce agents that intentionally target embryonic signaling pathways, precisely to cause birth defects if pregnant animals eat such plants. Cyclopamine, a teratogen produced by a

Thalidomide is a glutamic acid derivative initially introduced as a sedative hypnotic nearly forty years ago. It was withdrawn following numerous reports linking it to a characteristic pattern of congenital abnormalities in babies born to mothers who used the drug for morning sickness. It has

BACKGROUND It is largely believed that nausea/vomiting during cancer chemotherapy is caused by both the medical and personal factors of the patient. This study was aimed at examining whether the monitoring of risk factors prior to the therapy would help predict nausea/vomiting. METHODS In the

BACKGROUND Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) belongs to the most feared side-effects of cancer treatment. Its incidence during chemotherapy of gastrointestinal tumors (GITs) with highly and moderately emetogenic regimens is not well documented. It is also unknown whether aprepitant, a

A 28-year-old pregnant woman at 26 weeks and 2 days gestation visited a local outpatient clinic complaining of a tender abdominal mass. Examinations revealed an advanced gastric cancer with multiple liver, bone, lymph node metastasis and mesenteric dissemination, thus she was transferred to our

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to investigate the occurrence of and risk factors for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients with gynecologic cancer. METHODS In total, 214 patients with gynecologic cancer who underwent highly emetogenic (HEC) or moderately emetogenic

Thalidomide was first used for relief of morning sickness in pregnant women and then withdrawn from the market because of its dramatic effects on normal fetal development. Over the last decades, it has been used successfully for the treatment of several pathologies, including cancer. Many analogues

Over the past 60 years, thalidomide has metamorphosized from a drug prescribed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women, which was subsequently found to induce birth defects, into a highly effective therapy for treating leprosy and multiple myeloma. Several mechanisms have been proposed to

Thalidomide was synthesised and launched several decades ago as a drug against respiratory infections and was administered to pregnant women for relief of morning sickness. The drug was withdrawn when its teratogenic effects came to light. Thalidomide and its analogues suppressed cell proliferation