Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of cancer therapy-induced oral and gastrointestinal mucositis

Rubenstein, Edward; E. Peterson, Douglas; Schubert, Mark; Keefe, Dorothy; B. McGuire, Deborah; B. Epstein, Joel; S. Elting, Linda; C. Fox, Philip; D. Cooksley, Catherine; T. Sonis, Stephen

doi:10.1002/cncr.20163

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Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of cancer therapy-induced oral and gastrointestinal mucositis

Published in Cancer • Jan 1, 2004

Authors:

Edward Rubenstein

Douglas E. Peterson

Mark Schubert

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Oral and gastrointestinal (GI) mucositis can affect up to 100% of patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 80% of patients with malignancies of the head and neck receiving radiotherapy, and a wide range of patients receiving chemotherapy. Al...

Subject

Mucositis

Medicine

Intensive care medicine

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