Defining the Emetogenicity of Cancer Chemotherapy Form

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[Music] so let's talk about the guidelines we have great guidelines now and we have guidelines from masks NCCN ASCO as mode they're all very similar but let's talk first maybe you can explain a little bit about what we call highly metagenic chemotherapy and the other categories and what that really means sure so it's this is morphed over the years so it used to be graded based off of levels and so now our coin phrases if you will our heck or highly metagenic chemotherapy and MEK moderately metagenic chemotherapy and highly metagenic chemo therapies typically considered inducing nausea and greater than 90% of the population if you were to not give any prophylactic antiemetics and i always speaking of cisplatin i always learned it and i always teach my residents and fellows and things that it's this platen like it will universally cause nausea and vomiting you know even with very low doses and that was one of the good things that the guidelines did a couple years ago is reclassify cispla