Body surface area-dosing does not account for the complex processes of cytotoxic drug elimination. This leads to an unpredictable variation in effect. Overdosing is easily recognised but it is ...

Radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are essential components of modern treatment planning, ensuring that the prescribed radiation dose conforms as closely as possible to a patient’s tumour while ...

Errors involving medication dosage formulations are common and appear to present considerable risk to patients. This risk is expected to increase as more and more medications and medication dosage ...

How many of us give a “full” dose of chemotherapy to an obese patient—even in the curative setting? Dose calculation in the obese is a confusing but important puzzle for the oncologist and is becoming ...

Promise of New Vascular-Disrupting Agents Balanced With Cardiac Toxicity: Is It Time for Oncologists to Get to Know Their Cardiologists? Drugs are to the medical oncologist what the scalpel is to the ...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new, higher dose formulation of the chewable(1) non-calcium phosphate binder FOSRENOL(R) (lanthanum ...

Available to watch now, LAP GmbH Laser Applikationen explores the critical role of PSQA in ensuring accurate dose delivery for VMAT treatments, the potential of 3D dose calculation systems to optimize ...

Glide Technologies, the development company focused on solid dose formulations of therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that it has entered a collaboration with German biotechnology company ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck announced today results from a new non-inferiority trial of an antiemetic regimen containing fosaprepitant dimeglumine administered as a single intravenous (IV) 150-mg ...

Abstract and Introduction Characteristics and Contributors to Drug Formulation Errors Recommendations for Reducing Patient Risk From Errors With Dose Formulations Summary References Characteristics ...