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vomiting may be i_tense_ protracted and may last for several
hours ands in some instances_ for days. _/ Following the
vomiting, the patient experiences a mild to severe nausea for
days or weekso 19-_/
This vomiting and nausea have a tremendous destructive
impact on the patient's mental and physical condition_ Mentally,
it reenforces the patient's sense that he has completely lost
control over his life and this sense of being out of control
_ adversely affects the patient°s overall _ental outlook, i9-1/
Physically, the vomiting can be so prolonged that patients become
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...... of Dro John Bickers_ _ 6 (emesis is one of the biggest problems
of patients undergoing chemotherapy); Affidavit of Dr. Ronald
Stephens, _ 5 (chemotherapeutic agents often cause severe
emesis). See also ACT Official State Reports_ New Jersey Cancer
Protocol, Vol. II_ Exhibit 10_ i_n_rijuana and Health,
Report of a Study by a Committee of the Znstitute of Medicine,
'_ Division of Health Sciences Policy_ National Academy of Sciences,
National Academy Press (Washington, D_C_ 1982, at 142) (certain
chemotherapeutic agents regularly produce nausea and vomiting))°
i05/ Affidavit of Dro Ivan Silverberg_ _ 19 (vomiting may last u}?
to four days); Affidavit of Dr. Deborah Goldberg, _ 15.
106/ Affidavit of Dr. Ivan Silverberg, _ 20; Affidavit of Dr.
Deborah Goldberg_ _ 15_ Mac Nutt testified that every
chemotherapy treatment received by her son, Keith, made him
constantly Rvomit violently for eight to ten hours N and after the
vomiting episodes_ Keith n[beca_e_ profoundly nauseated to the
........ point that he could neither bear to look at nor smell food. #
Affidavit of Mac Nutt_ _ 21_ Mona Taft testified that the
chemotherapy drugs would make her husband vomit for #endless
hours m and Hleave him so nauseated he could not eat -- could not
even stand the sight or smell of food cooking in the house, n
Affidavit of Mona Taft_ _ 9p I0o _9__ _SO Affidavit of Dr.
..... Ivan Silverberg, _ 24-28, 31 (description of emesis suffered by
two patients); Affidavit of Madelyn Brazis_ _ 33, 34
(description of emesis suffered by patient in New Mexico program)°
I07/ Affidavit of Madelyn Brazis, _ 14o
o 31
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