Inflammation response of epithelial mucosa to chemo-radiotherapy cytotoxic effects leads to
mucositis, a painful side effect of antineoplastic treatments. About 40% of the patients treated …

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 …

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 …

The term mucositis is coined to describe the adverse effects of radiation and chemotherapy
treatments. Mucositis is one of the most common adverse reactions encountered in radiation …

Mucositis is a common and feared complication of anticancer therapy that can affect up to
90% of certain populations of patients with cancer. Even seemingly uncomplicated …

Oral Mucositis (OM) continues to be an oncologic challenge in the context of antineoplastic
therapy for head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment. It is a dose-limiting toxicity of …

The oral and gastrointestinal mucosa is frequently damaged during chemotherapy and
radiotherapy in patients with cancer, leading to a high incidence of mucositis (ie, oral …

Oral mucositis is a common toxicity of high-dose chemotherapy and upper mantle head and
neck radiation. Published evidence from the past 14 months provides insight into the …

Head and neck cancer represents one of the main oncological problems. Its treatment,
radiotherapy and chemotherapy leads to mucositis, and other side effects. The authors …

Purpose To discuss the role of benzydamine in the prevention and treatment of radiation-
induced oral mucositis (OM) in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients. This document …