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Prediction of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting from patient-reported and genetic risk factors

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Abstract

Purpose

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is common among cancer patients. Early identification of patients at risk for CINV may help to personalize anti-emetic therapies. To date, few studies have examined the combined contributions of patient-reported and genetic risk factors to CINV. The goal of this study was to evaluate these risk factors.

Methods

Prior to their first chemotherapy infusion, participants completed demographic and risk factor questionnaires and provided a blood sample to measure genetic variants in ABCB1 (rs1045642) and HTR3B (rs45460698) as well as CYP2D6 activity score. The M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory was completed at 24 h and 5-day post-infusion to assess the severity of acute and delayed CINV, respectively.

Results

Participants were 88 patients (55% female, M = 60 years). A total of 23% experienced acute nausea and 55% delayed nausea. Younger age, history of pregnancy-related nausea, fewer hours slept the night prior to infusion, and variation in ABCB1 were associated with more severe acute nausea; advanced-stage cancer and receipt of highly emetogenic chemotherapy were associated with more severe delayed nausea (p values < 0.05). In multivariable analyses, ABCB1 added an additional 5% predictive value beyond the 13% variance explained by patient-reported risk factors.

Conclusions

The current study identified patient-reported and genetic factors that may place patients at risk for acute nausea despite receipt of guideline-consistent anti-emetic prophylaxis. Additional studies examining other genetic variants are needed, as well as the development of risk prediction models including both patient-reported and genetic risk factors.

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Acknowledgements

Funding was provided by the Moffitt Cancer Center Team Science Award (PIs: Jim, McLeod). This work was supported in part by the Survey Methods Core and the Tissue Core Facilities at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (P30 CA076292).

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  1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA

    Sonam Puri, Jhanelle E. Gray & Richard Kim

  2. College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Sonam Puri

  3. Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-SCM, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA

    Kelly A. Hyland, Kristine Crowe Weiss, Aasha I. Hoogland, Brian D. Gonzalez, Ashley M. Nelson & Heather S. L. Jim

  4. Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Kelly A. Hyland & Ashley M. Nelson

  5. Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA

    Gillian C. Bell & Howard L. McLeod

  6. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA

    Hui-Yi Lin

  7. Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Anita Y. Kinney

  8. Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

    Stacy M. Fischer

  9. Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA

    Daneng Li

  10. Healthcare Delivery Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Paul B. Jacobsen

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Dr. Li is a consultant for Novartis. Dr. Jim is a consultant for RedHill Biopharma. This work was performed while Dr. Jacobsen was at the Moffitt Cancer Center and does not represent the views of the National Cancer Institute.

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Puri, S., Hyland, K.A., Weiss, K.C. et al. Prediction of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting from patient-reported and genetic risk factors. Support Care Cancer 26, 2911–2918 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4120-6

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