Chemotherapy Side-Effects: Nausea and Vomiting

Key points

• Nausea and vomiting are common side-effects of chemotherapy. Risk factors for the development of symptoms include:
• age less than 50 years old
• concurrent use of opioids
• the type of chemotherapy used For patients at low-risk of symptoms then drugs such as metoclopramide may be used first-line. For high-risk patients then 5HT3 receptor antagonists such as ondansetron are often effective,