Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Patients (PDF)

2007 and is now an associate professor of Medical Oncology and Supportive Care in the Department of Oncology/Haematology, University Hospital, Halle. She has been the vice executive director of the ethics committee at the University of Halle since 2009. Dr Jordan has served as a board member of the ESMO Consensus Panel 2008 on the treatment of testicular cancer, the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer MASCC/ESMO Antiemetic Guideline Consensus Panel 2009 in Perugia, Italy, and the German Cancer Society Consensus Panel on paravasation induced by cytotoxic agents. She holds the cochair of Supportive Care within the German Society of Medical Oncology and is the associate chair of the German Association of Supportive Care in Oncology, Rehabilitation and Social Medicine. She is a member of a number of national and international hematology and oncology societies. Dr Jordan has authored and coauthored more than 70 articles in national and international journals. Her principal area of interest is supportive care with a special focus on antiemetic treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and side effects of new drugs. Further major interests are sarcoma and testicular cancer. Petra Feyer, MD, PhD studied medicine at the Universities of Sofia, Bulgaria and Leipzig, Germany. At the University of Leipzig she undertook a residency in the Department of Radiology before becoming consultant and then senior consultant in the Department of Radio-oncology. As well as undertaking fellowships at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and Surrey and at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK, she trained at the German Cancer Research Institute in Heidelberg. In 1994 she became an assistant professor at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. She moved in 1999 to the University of Cologne, where she became the professor of Radiation Oncology. Since 2000 she has also been the director of the Clinic of Radiotherapy, Radio-oncology, and Nuclear Medicine at the Vivantes Clinics, Neukölln, Berlin and the professor of Radiation Oncology at the Charité University Medicine Berlin. Dr Feyer has served as a board member of the MASCC and was its secretary from 2006 to 2008. She is a faculty member of the ESMO, the president of the German Association of Supportive Care in Oncology, Rehabilitation and Social Medicine, the vice president of the Cancer Society of Berlin, and is a member of a number of national and international hematology and oncology societies. Dr Feyer has authored and coauthored more than 150 articles in national and international journals and books. Her principal areas of clinical interest are quality of life and supportive care in cancer patients, especially minimising side effects of radio and chemotherapy, optimising multimodal treatment strategies in oncology and palliative radio-oncological treatment modalities.