Guidelines for chemotherapy (SACT) are listed below:
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information in a given regimen it cannot be guaranteed that the regimen is fully up to date, because of the dynamic nature of cancer treatment. Check the regimen details for the specific indication the regimen may be used / funded in. See our disclaimer.
SACT dose bands, diluents and diluent volumes
Diluents, specified diluent volume by agent, flushes:
Dose banding and rounding:
Parenteral agent dose rounding on Aria (ie not included in dose bands below)
SACT and Immuno-oncology guidelines
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- Immuno-oncology agent Immune-related adverse event clinical guidelines can be found here
- Anaphylaxis (adults)
- Antiemetics
- Blueteq calendar year duration treatments
- Chemotherapy drugs safe handling and administration (adults) – refer to local Trust policy
- Chemotherapy home spillage – refer to local Trust policy
- Chemotherapy (SACT) spillage – refer to local Trust policy
- Cisplatin hydration
- Diarrhoea – capecitabine induced
- Oral mucositis
- TVCA Self-administration of subcutaneous systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) in the community – Policy June 2025
- UKONS acute oncology initial management guidelines
SACT non-TV approved regimens
Aria user guides
- How to check which regimens exist on Aria
- Aria user (prescriber) task list
- Accepting regimen amendments
- Adding CrCl and EDTA or Tests
- Cumulative doses
- Date changes
- Deferring and discontinuing treatment
- Dose adjustments, discontinuing drugs and deleting future cycles
- Drug administration
- Entering diagnosis ICD10, Morphology and Staging
- Entering providers
- Entering Vital Signs, Toxicities, PS and Allergies
- Erroring an administered agent
- Flow sheet
- General information
- Interaction checking
- Intrathecal chemotherapy
- Logging on (V16) post upgrade
- Logging on, switching users or location and exiting Aria
- Opening patient – Proceed to (and user preferences)
- Patient status icons
- Patient tracking
- Pharmacist screening
- Pharmacist verification
- Pharmacy approval and dispensing
- Prescribing chemotherapy, antiemetics (support medicines) and ordering additional cycles
- Provider approval (prescriber’s pending Rx work list)
- Scheduling
- System back up
- Tool bar icons
- User preferences (and opening page – proceed to)
- Visit tab
SACT data guidance
Clinical trials
Best practice
National SACT Sharing Best Practice / Innovation Away Day
The Pan Alliances Breast Cancer Group has come together to share new ways of working in breast cancer service delivery across the country.
As part of this a sharing best practice and innovation away day was held earlier this year and the slides and recordings of presentations are available online.