Pharmacist-managed Apatinib Treatment of One Elderly Patient with Advanced NSCLC

OBJECTIVE To explore the treatment and pharmaceutical care of apatinib in elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC). METHODS Clinical pharmacists participated in the treatment of a case of apatinib in advanced NSCLC by means of pharmaceutical rounds and doctor-pharmacist outpatient service. Combined with the characteristics of drugs and the special conditions of patients with hypertension and old age, put forward suggestions for drug use, guided patients to use drugs, actively dealt with drug-related adverse reactions and put forward preventive and monitoring measures for the non-existent adverse reactions. RESULTS Through the individualized pharmaceutical care of the patients, the patients' clinical symptoms such as cough and expectoration were significantly improved. Lung CT showed that the tumor focus was significantly reduced and the patients' quality of life was good, and the patients were effectively treated. CONCLUSION Clinical pharmacists go deep into clinical practice, take part in the pharmaceutical care of patients in the process of drug treatment which can better play their own value especially for the treatment experience of new drugs.