Going through chemotherapy is hard enough. To make matters worse, the chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) that goes along with it is seen by many as an unavoidable side effect. However, there is good news. You don’t have to accept the nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapies that are likely to cause nausea and vomiting. You can stand up to CINV with the help of EMEND. Ask your oncology doctor or nurse today about how EMEND can help make your experience with chemotherapy more bearable.
Stand up to CINV with the help of EMEND.
EMEND, in combination with other medicines, helps prevent CINV CINV – chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. EMEND is an antiemetic Antiemetic - A drug that is effective against vomiting and nausea medication that works by stopping the brain from receiving signals that cause nausea and vomiting. EMEND works along with other antiemetic drugs that your doctor already prescribes to help treat CINV caused by chemotherapies that are likely to cause nausea and vomiting.
Assess your risk for nausea and vomiting 
EMEND, in combination with other medicines, helps prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV).
Important information about EMEND
EMEND is only used to help prevent nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy. It is not used to get rid of nausea and vomiting after they start.
Do not take EMEND if you are taking Orap (pimozide), Seldane (terfenadine), Hismanal (astemizole), or Propulsid (cisapride). Taking EMEND with these medicines could cause serious or life-threatening problems. EMEND may also affect some medicines, including chemotherapy, causing them to work differently in your body. Patients taking Coumadin (warfarin) may need to have blood tests after taking EMEND to check their blood clotting. Women who use birth control medicines during treatment with EMEND and for up to 1 month after using EMEND should also use a backup method of contraception to avoid pregnancy.
Tell your doctor if you are taking or plan to take prescription or nonprescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements, or if you have liver problems. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant because it is not known if EMEND can harm your unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding because it is not known if EMEND passes into your milk or if it can harm your baby.
EMEND is available by prescription only. Please read the Patient Information for EMEND and discuss it with your doctor. The physician Prescribing Information also is available.
