What is 'pre-medication'?

What is 'pre-medication'?

Christian Cable, Dr. Ryan Osborne & Dr. Noam Z. Drazin (Cancer Experts) gives expert video advice on: What is 'pre-medication'?; What is 'interferon therapy'?; What is 'gene therapy'? and more...

Pre-medication is sometimes referred to in the medical literature as medication given prior to therapy, to alleviate the symptoms of the therapy, not necessarily the symptoms of the disease. So, in the past, I think chemotherapy got a very bad rap for causing projectile vomiting during the therapy, tremendous and horrible side effects during chemotherapy that really impacted the ability to provide therapy to patients. And it definitely impacts patients' anxiety when they start having the opportunity, or when they are unfortunately given the opportunity, to receive chemotherapy.