Conditions: Malignant Neoplasm
Keywords: ondansetron palonosetron emetogenic chemotherapy HEC
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Palonosetron is different from ondansetron because it stays in the body longer and may prevent nausea and vomiting for a longer period of time than ondansetron. It is standard practice to use dexamethasone and aprepitant with either ondansetron or palonosetron to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by highly emetogenic chemotherapy. Although these combinations are commonly used, they have never been compared to each other. The purpose of this study is to record the amount of nausea and vomiting, and the amount of "rescue" medication that is used with these two different anti-emetic regimens

Detailed description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. The goal of this study is to evaluate the overall complete response rate (CR, no emesis and no use of rescue medication from 0 to 120 hours after chemotherapy) of two different antiemetic regimens (palonosetron + aprepitant + dexamethasone and ondansetron + aprepitant + dexamethasone) for patients undergoing the first cycle of highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC).

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

ARM I: Patients receive palonosetron hydrochloride intravenously (IV) 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on day 1, aprepitant orally (PO) 60 minutes prior to chemotherapy on days 1-3, and dexamethasone PO 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on days 1-4.

ARM II: Patients receive ondansetron PO 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on day 1 and aprepitant and dexamethasone as in Arm I.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 7 days.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients receive palonosetron hydrochloride IV 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on day 1, aprepitant PO (by mouth) 60 minutes prior to chemotherapy on days 1-3, and dexamethasone PO 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on days 1-4. arm 2: Patients receive ondansetron PO 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy on day 1 and aprepitant and dexamethasone as in Arm I.

Interventions: intervention 1: aprepitant intervention 2: palonosetron hydrochloride intervention 3: ondansetron intervention 4: dexamethasone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Given by mouth intervention 2: Given IV(intervenous infusion) intervention 3: Given PO intervention 4: Given PO

Protocol document: