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Overmedication with cancer and other conditions

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Sep 23, 2018 | Replies (62)
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@lisakuehl

Is there any consensus that the effects of medications vary as persons lose weight, or are unable to normally metabolize medications as a person's health status declines?

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sepdvm | Apr 21, 2018

It certainly does change with animals in veterinary medicine, so I would expect it to in humans. I am often amazed at medication dosages being the same for my 125# as they are for my 210# husband! In the vet world weight is always a factor in dosing. In chemotherapy in humans and animals dosage is by body mass, but I don't find that to be true with all human medications.

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