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What Causes Nausea While On Chemo Treatment For Breast Cancer?

Hi. My name is Jane. I was diagnosted with breast cancer in march. In may ,after an succesful operation I started chemotherapy. I had already 3 sessions .(FEC-T ). I was trying to quit smoking but it s really really hard. Before I was diagnosted I did not smoke for 4 months takaing Champix. It was a big help for me. I asked my oncologist if I could take Champix while having chemo. She never heard about the tablets but she read on the internet about it. and her advice was not to take it because one of the side effects is nausea..and we ll not know if the nausea is from the chemo ot champix. Now,with the second part of the treatment,they said I won t have nausea anymore...I was wondering what do u think? I m desperate to stop as soon as possible..I have the tablets and I know how good they are...I can even take half of the tablet because I use to do that before everything happened.. I hope I made myself clear :) Thank you so much. My email adrdess : YYYY@YYYY
Mon, 17 Nov 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
Yes, I understood your problem and in my opinion you ahould take champix as quitting smoking should be given utmost priority in your case.
And chemotherapy drugs are known to cause nausea and vomiting. But gradually it will reduce once body is used to it.
You can take 5HT receptor blocker (ondensetron) for chemotherapy associated nausea and vomiting. As it is the drug of choice for this. And this drug will also effective in nausea due to champix.
So start champix and ondensetron.
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What Causes Nausea While On Chemo Treatment For Breast Cancer?

Thanks for your question on HCM. Yes, I understood your problem and in my opinion you ahould take champix as quitting smoking should be given utmost priority in your case. And chemotherapy drugs are known to cause nausea and vomiting. But gradually it will reduce once body is used to it. You can take 5HT receptor blocker (ondensetron) for chemotherapy associated nausea and vomiting. As it is the drug of choice for this. And this drug will also effective in nausea due to champix. So start champix and ondensetron.