Anticipatory nausea and vomiting in cancer patients with chemotherapy: A review / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Anticipatory nausea and vomiting (ANV) is one of the common adverse effects in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.ANV is related to classical conditioning,psychosocial and demographic factors.Psychological intervention such as systematic desensitization,hypnosis and biofeedback therapy could be used to treat ANV,while some psychotropic medication including benzodiazepines and olanzapine is also helpful to prevent ANV.Now the recognition about ANV in clinical oncology is not adequate and large sample epidemiological survey of ANV is lacked.So far there are no special tools to predict and assess ANV,and the effects of pharmacological interventions also need solid evidence from large sample double-blind randomized controlled trials.