Oral Care in Chemotherapy

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اگر سلامتی انسان را نتیجه عواملی بدانیم که از بدو تولد بر او تأثیر می گذارند، آموزش بهداشت همیشه به عنوان یک تجربه قبلی در نظر گرفته خواهد شد. فردی که مسئول آموزش بهداشت و مراقبت های دهانی به کودکانی است که به نقص سیستم ایمنی مبتلا هستند، در برخورد با بیمارانی که قبلاً از مسواک استفاده کرده و مرتباً به دندانپزشک مراجعه می نمودند، مشکل کمتری خواهد داشت.

Oral Health and Experience of Oral Care among Cancer Patients during Radio- or Chemotherapy

Öhrn, K. 2001. Oral Health and Experience of Oral Care among Cancer Patients during Radioor Chemotherapy. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 998. 60 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-4940-9 Oral complications and symptoms are common among patients with cancer. The aim of this thesis is to study several aspects of oral status, ora...

oral cavity lesions in patients after chemotherapy

Pharmacology of oral chemotherapy agents.

The abundance of orally formulated chemotherapy agents reflects the expanding role of oral chemotherapy in the care of patients with cancer. Many oral chemotherapy agents have been used for a number of years, and several have been developed recently. Newer agents include the prodrugs capecitabine and temozolomide, the retinoid bexarotene, the immunomodulatory agent thalidomide, the protein kina...

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...

Patient selection for oral chemotherapy.

Oral chemotherapy has evolved with several new agents such as capecitabine and UFT in active clinical trials or already approved for use in the western world. Several distinct issues, apart from the usual criteria for selecting patients for intravenous chemotherapy, dictate patient selection for these drugs. This article discusses these issues, which include patient preference, selection, and c...