he University of Liverpool and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen have launched a new website intended to promote safer prescribing and improve quality of care for cancer patients called www.cancer-druginteractions.org.
Building on comparable, world-renowned resources for HIV and Hepatitis, the website will host an easy-to-use, interaction checker, enabling rapid screening for drug-drug interactions (DDIs) with anti-cancer agents.
Users will be able to select from a list of anti-cancer agents – organised by generic name, trade name and indication – and a comprehensive list of commonly prescribed co-medications and see, at a glance, whether a DDI between selected drugs is likely. The rationale and quality of evidence behind each recommendation will also be clearly displayed.
The team plans to produce a living, comprehensive resource – hosting up to 200 anti-cancer agents used to treat both solid and haematological cancers – which will be rolled out over the next three to five years.
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