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Compared With Placebo and Prochlorperazine in Chemotherapy-Associated Nausea and Emesis

Leo E. Orr, MD; Joseph F. McKernan, MD; Berit Bloome, RN

Arch Intern Med. 1980;140(11):1431-1433.

Abstract
• Fifty-five patients harboring a variety of neoplasms and previously found to have severe nausea or emesis from antitumor drugs were given antiemetic prophylaxis in a double-blind, randomized, crossover fashion. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), prochlorperazine, and placebo were compared. Nausea was absent in 40 of 55 patients receiving THC, eight of 55 patients receiving prochlorperazine, and five of 55 in the placebo group. The antiemetic effect of THC appeared to be more efficacious for cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil, and doxorubicin hydrochloride, and less so for mechlorethamine hydrochloride and the nitrosureas. Tetrahydrocannabinol appears to offer significant control of nausea in most patients and exceeding by far that provided by prochlorperazine.

(Arch Intern Med 140:1431-1433, 1980)

Author Affiliations
From the Medical Oncology Section, Southern California Cancer Center, California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 27, 1979.

Reprint requests to Medical Oncology Section, Southern California Cancer Center, California Hospital Medical Center, 1414 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Dr Orr).

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