Prescription analysis of cancer patients

Abstract

A significant number of people around the world lose their lives due to cancer. Over the past decade, the cancer mortality rate has risen by 28%, which is three times greater than the overall mortality rate of 9% during the same time frame. The fight against cancer continues to be a tremendous obstacle in the field of medicine, necessitating ongoing improvements in treatment methods. Analysis of the prescription of cancer patients is very important because it will help to identify if there is any discrepancy or any kind of prescription errors so that improvement can be done in the mode of treatment of cancer patients. Therefore, more studies should be done in order to identify such issues. However, substantial studies are not done in this field in our country. In the current study, data were collected from there 34 prescriptions of cancer patients and analyzed. From the study, it was found that carboplatin was the most prescribed medication for lung cancer patients. Additionally, in one case dexamethasone and levofloxacin were co-administered together which can lead to drug-drug interaction.