An approach to chemotherapy-associated toxicity

Z Livshits, RB Rao, SW Smith - Emergency Medicine Clinics, 2014 - emed.theclinics.com
Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and the second leading cause of death in
the United States. 1 Approximately 13.7 million Americans with a cancer history were alive in
January 1, 2012. 2 Given anticipated increases in cancer incidence and prevalence, the
emergency medicine physician is likely to encounter patients receiving chemotherapeutic
agents. The breadth of chemotherapeutic agents is vast, and adverse effects are,
unfortunately, common. Given disease complexity, most patients receive multidrug …