Oral Cryotherapy for Preventing Oral Mucositis in Patients Receiving Cancer Treatment.

Riley, Philip; McCabe, Martin G; Glenny, Anne-Marie · JAMA Oncol · 2016

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Abstract

In patients receiving treatment for cancer, does oral cryotherapy prevent oral mucositis? Oral cryotherapy is effective for the prevention of oral mucositis in adults receiving fluorouracil-based chemotherapy for solid cancers, and for the prevention of severe oral mucositis in adults receiving high-dose melphalan-based chemotherapy before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

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