Hirotoshi Iihara

Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Documented Health Care Encounter Time

Importance Time toxicity, defined as the time patients spend receiving cancer treatment and interacting with health care systems, is an emerging treatment-related burden. Existing studies typically quantify time toxicity using health care contact days, which may inadequately capt...

Global inequitable distribution of seminal studies of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) remains one of the most quality of life limiting toxicities of cancer therapy. Decades of trials have produced robust antiemetic evidence, but their applicability to resource-limited settings where guideline-recommended...