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Do you regularly utilize antiemetic or GI prophylaxis when treating abdominal sites with SBRT?

What timing do you recommend? What drug and what dose do you use?
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Radiation Oncology · Henry Ford Health System
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I regularly use antiemetics for patients treated with SBRT for pancreatic cancer and selectively for patients with liver metastases or hepatocellular cancer. I am agnostic about the antiemetic choice, often the patient has either ondansetron or prochloperazine already; and I ask them to take it 30-6...

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