emetic potential of chemotherapeutic agents
Last reviewed 01/2018
Drugs used in the treatment of cancer may be classified according to their emetic potential:
- highly emetogenic:
- cisplatin
- mechlorethamine hydrochloride
- streptozocin
- dacarbazine
- carmustine
- dactinomycin
- moderately emetogenic:
- cyclophosphamide
- doxorubicin
- carboplatin
- mitomycin
- asparaginase
- azacitidine
- mildly emetogenic:
- fluorouracil
- methotrexate
- etoposide
- vincristine
- bleomycin