Appropriate Systemic Therapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients with Cancer
Publication Date: April 26, 2021
Key Points
Key Points
- The Panel continues to recommend that full, weight-based cytotoxic chemotherapy doses be used to treat obese adults with cancer.
- The Panel also recommends that full, approved doses of immunotherapy and targeted therapies be offered to obese adults with cancer.
- In the event of toxicity, the consensus of the Panel is that dose modifications of systemic antineoplastic therapies should be handled similarly for obese and non-obese patients.
Treatment
Treatmen...
...l weight-based dosing of cytotoxic che...
...e Panel recommends limiting fixed dosing of chem...
...ed prescribing information for checkpoint inhibito...
...pproved prescribing information for targeted...
...ent experiences high-grade toxicity from syst...
...recommends that BSA be calculated...