Coping with chemo in childhood cancer
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Although nausea and vomiting are common in children undergoing chemotherapy, few quality studies identify absolutely the best way to prevent and treat this problem in kids, said Robert Phillips, M.D., lead author of a new Cochrane review. Phillips, a pediatric oncologist at St. James`s Hospital in Leeds, England, said the main finding is the paucity of data that he and his colleagues uncovered.