Systemic Treatment Safety Symposium 2014: Oral Chemotherapy

ACES Symposium 2014 Presenter


One of the topics in general chemistry that has often given students problems is stoichiometry. Stoichiometry is the branch of chemistry that attempts to quantify the measured relationships or ratios between two or more items. The importance of stoichiometry is not lost among those who practice it, mostly chemists or chemical engineers. For the novice learner it is difficult to see what is bey...

Oral Care in Chemotherapy

  میزان بروز سرطان، همچنان رو به افزایش است، به طوریکه در سال ۱۹۹۶ در آمریکا بالغ بر ۱۳۰۹۵۰۰۰ بیمار سرطانی تشخیص داده شد. در آمریکا حداقل از هر چهارنفر، یک نفر به سرطان مبتلا می شود و تقریبا از هر سه نفر مبتلا یک نفر زنده می ماند. علاوه بر این سرطان در سراسر جهان زیانهای اقتصادی و اجتماعی فراوانی به بار آورده و بر تمامی شئونات زندگی اثر می گذارد.. یکی از رایج ترین درمانها برای سرطان شیمی درما...

Treatment of oral mucositis due to chemotherapy.

INTRODUCTION The management of oral mucositis is a challenge, due to its complex biological nature. Over the last 10 years, different strategies have been developed for the management of oral mucositis caused by chemotherapy in cancer patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS An exhaustive search was made of the PubMed-Medline, Cochrane Library and Scopus databases, crossing the key words "oral mucositi...

Oral mucositis in radiation/chemotherapy: treatment similarities.

OM occurs in 85% of patients receiving head/neck irradiation alone and in 95% of head and neck cancer patients treated with chemoradiation. The incidence and severity of OM vary with different treatment regimens, but all patients with OM share the same pathogenesis: an interference with normal epithelial cell turnover, leading to direct and indirect destruction of the mucosal lining.[1–4] Subse...

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