Highlights • The worldwide spread of obesity is an emerging challenge also in cancer patients • Weight or BSA-based approaches do not adequately address the critical issue of optimal dosing for cancer drugs under obesity • Empirical dose capping is often employed in clinical practice to avoid toxicities among overweight and obese patients • There is a lack of clinical and pharmacokinetic studies in this population • Clinical practice recommendations should guide suitable dosing of cytotoxic and biological cancer drugs in obese patients

Antineoplastic dosing in overweight and obese cancer patients: an Associazione Italiana Oncologia Medica (AIOM)/Associazione Medici Diabetologi (AMD)/Società Italiana Endocrinologia (SIE)/Società Italiana Farmacologia (SIF) multidisciplinary consensus position paper

D'Oronzo, S.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

Highlights • The worldwide spread of obesity is an emerging challenge also in cancer patients • Weight or BSA-based approaches do not adequately address the critical issue of optimal dosing for cancer drugs under obesity • Empirical dose capping is often employed in clinical practice to avoid toxicities among overweight and obese patients • There is a lack of clinical and pharmacokinetic studies in this population • Clinical practice recommendations should guide suitable dosing of cytotoxic and biological cancer drugs in obese patients
2021
obesity BSA cancer drug dosing chemotherapy dose pharmacokinetic parameters
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