Answer questions and earn CME/CNE Oral complications resulting from cancer and cancer
therapies cause acute and late toxicities that may be underreported, underrecognized, and …

The history of mucositis is as old as radiation-and chemotherapy. Despite being regularly
reported and documented as one of the worst side effects of cancer therapy, relatively little …

Aim The ulcerative phase of oral mucositis following radiotherapy/chemotherapy for oral
cancer colonizes bacteria, fungi and viruses. The role of a microbiota, specifically bacterial …

Background Treatment of cancer is increasingly more effective but is associated with short
and long term side effects. Oral side effects remain a major source of illness despite the use …

Oral mucositis is a clinically important and sometimes dose-limiting complication of cancer
therapy. Mucositis lesions can be painful, affect nutrition and quality of life, and have a …

Oral mucositis is a common side-effect associated with conventional cancer therapy and has
also recently been reported in association with newly emerging cancer therapies. It is …

Oral mucositis induced by conventional cytotoxic cancer therapies is a common and
significant clinical problem in oncology. Mucositis symptoms, which include severe pain …

BACKGROUND The current study was conducted to characterize the risks and clinical
consequences of oral mucositis (OM) in patients with head and neck carcinoma (HNC) who …

Mucosal damage is one of the most common adverse effects of radiotherapy and of cytotoxic
therapy for cancer. With prevalence between 10% and 100%, depending of the cytotoxic …

Oral mucositis is a common toxicity associated with both antineoplastic head and neck
radiation and chemotherapy. In addition to exacting a terrible symptomatic toll, mucositis is …