Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing For Obese Adult Patients With Cancer

Publication Date: April 2, 2012
Last Updated: March 14, 2022

Recommendations

The Panel recommends that actual body weight be used when selecting cytotoxic chemotherapy doses regardless of obesity status. There is no evidence that short- or long-term toxicity is increased among obese patients receiving full weight–based chemotherapy doses. Most data indicate that myelosuppression is the same or less pronounced among the obese than the non-obese when administered full weight–based doses.
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Overview

Title

Appropriate Chemotherapy Dosing for Obese Adult Patients With Cancer

Authoring Organization

American Society of Clinical Oncology