Sample characteristics
A total of 186 patients completed 218 assessments in the acute phase and
208 in the delayed phase of their chemotherapy regimens. This count
included 41% female patients whose average age was 6.46 years. The
complete demographics are provided in Table 1. Approximately 53% of the
surveys were completed with inpatients, while the remaining 47% with
outpatients. The most common diagnoses were leukemia/lymphomas (55.5%),
followed by solid tumors (28.4%) and central nervous system (CNS)
tumors (16.1%). The overall distribution of the types of chemotherapy
regimens is provided in table 1, with moderately and highly emetogenic
regimens accounting for 70% of them.