A importância do profissional farmacêutico no cuidado ao paciente em adenocarcinoma gástrico: uma revisão.

Abstract

Gastric Adenocarcinoma (AG) is the most frequent histopathological type of gastric cancer, it is responsible for about 95% of cases of stomach tumor. The incidence of death caused by gastric cancer has decreased over the past decades, however this type of cancer remains the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the world, in Brazil it is the third most frequent among men, and the fifth among women. The present study aimed to carry out an integrative literature review on the importance of the pharmacist's performance in cancer patients, specifically affected by gastric adenocarcinoma, through files available in the following electronic databases Electronic Electronic Libary Online (SciElo), Virtual Library in Health (VHL), Science Direct, Pubmed. Works published in the last 10 years, between 2010 and 2020, were included in three languages, Portuguese, English and Spanish, the selection sequence was the reading of the title, after the summary and ending the reading of the entire article, being selected in a total of 110 articles and 2 books. The results showed that the main intervention strategies of the pharmaceutical professional are: pharmaceutical prescription, encouraging responsible self-medication, providing necessary and important information to the health team and the user for an accurate assessment and consequently a correct therapy intervention with the medical team. These strategies result in cost savings; better effectiveness of pharmacological treatment; reduction of drug-related problems (PRM); improvement in the quality of life; contribution to treatment adherence; improvement in the pharmaceutical / patient relationship. Therefore, the practice of pharmaceutical care for patients with gastric adenocarcinoma is one of the main ways available to promote the rational use of chemotherapy drugs, thereby optimizing the treatment of the patient, as the pharmacist is the professional who knows all aspects related to the drug , thus being able to offer the user greater access to information, which in turn will use the drugs correctly and safely, promoting good results to the inserted therapy.