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October 3, 2025BMC CancerOpen Access

Olanzapine plus triple antiemetic therapy for prevention of carboplatin-induced nausea: a pooled analysis of two clinical trials

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SKSuguru KojimaNINaoki InuiTSTakahito Suzuki

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Overview

Pooled analysis reveals olanzapine significantly reduces chemotherapy-induced nausea in patients, indicating its beneficial role in treatment.

Key Points

  • Adding olanzapine to antiemetic therapy significantly reduced nausea rates compared to placebo, improving patient comfort.
  • In the olanzapine group, 87.5% experienced no nausea versus 75.0% in the placebo group, a significant difference of 12.5%.
  • Collected data from a pooled analysis of two distinct clinical trials supports the efficacy of olanzapine in this context.
  • The findings underscore the importance of olanzapine in managing nausea for patients undergoing carboplatin treatment.

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Kojima et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dfd546640ded6070d9cef1https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-14985-1
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