A power user of SearchMedica looks regularly for new results from the query nausea and vomiting. Last week, that vigilance paid off.
(We added “chemotherapy” to the search term to bring the reports relevant to cancer to the top of the list.)
RESULT: Efficacy and safety of casopitant mesylate, a neurokinin 1 (NK1)-receptor antagonist, in prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients receiving cisplatin-based highly emetogenic chemotherapy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Lancet Oncology
RESULT: Palonosetron plus dexamethasone effectively prevents acute and delayed chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting following highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy in pre-treated patients who have failed to respond to a previous antiemetic treatment: comparison between elderly and non-elderly patient response.
Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
SearchMedica is working to develop new features such as saved searches and alerts.
Meanwhile, you can easily follow a tip from this colleague: Bookmark your favorite SearchMedica search pages, and check those bookmarks regularly.
Don’t forget to look at the article categories for other relevant results.
Practical Articles/News
Can’t access full text of the new article from Lancet because you don’t have a subscription? Look for summaries of the study in this category, using the simple search term casopitant.
RESULT: Novel drug boosts standard anti-emetic treatment
MedPage Today
Meeting Abstracts
A new study shows that, even using the best available preventive methods, nausea and vomiting remain distressingly prevalent after moderately or highly emetic chemotherapy. About 6% experience acute vomiting and at least 40% experience nausea.
RESULT: Incidence of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in 2008
2009 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts
IN THE JOURNALS
What have other oncologists been finding on SearchMedica?
Search term: rcc
RESULT: From bench to bedside: current and future applications of molecular profiling in renal cell carcinoma
Molecular Cancer
Search term: pancreas
RESULT: A prospective observational clinical study involving an alternative cancer treatment, psorinum therapy, in treating stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, and liver cancers
2009 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts
Search term: cancer patients resilience
RESULT: Analysis of resilience scores in a cohort of solid tumors ambulatory cancer patients in chemotherapy treatment.
2009 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts
NOTEWORTHY SEARCH of the week
Lessons from a genuine clinical search
Whoever searched on mri last week in the Cancer/Hemic tab may have missed something important.
TIP: If you’re searching on an imaging modality, it’s worth looking in the Radiology tab as well as the Cancer/Hemic tab.
The two specialty collections contain almost completely different sets of resources.
