BACKGROUND Whole-pelvis radiation therapy is common practice in the post-surgical treatment of cervical and endometrial cancer. Gastrointestinal mucositis is an adverse side effect of radiation therapy, and is a primary concern in patient management. We investigate whether proteomic information obtained from blood samples drawn from patients scheduled to receive radiation therapy for gynecologi...

Unplanned radiation treatment breaks and prolongation of the radiation treatment time are associated with lower survival and locoregional control rates when radiotherapy or concurrent chemoradiotherapy is used in the curative treatment of head and neck cancer. Treatment of head and neck cancer is intense, involving high-dose, continuous radiotherapy, and often adding chemotherapy to radiotherap...

Oral and intestinal mucositis are among the most significant dose-limiting toxic effects of intensive cancer treatment and are associated with adverse clinical and economic outcomes. Palifermin (Kepivancetrade mark), an N-truncated recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor-1, is the first agent to be approved for prevention of oral mucositis. Keratinocyte growth factor, a potent epithelial m...

Although NADPH oxidase 1 (NOX1) has been shown to be highly expressed in the gastrointestinal tract, the physiological and pathophysiological roles of this enzyme are not yet fully understood. In the present study, we investigated the role of NOX1 in the pathogenesis of intestinal mucositis induced by the cancer chemotherapeutic agent 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in mice. Intestinal mucositis was indu...

"Mucositis" is the clinical term used to describe ulceration and damage of the mucous membranes of the entire gastrointestinal tract (GIT) following cytotoxic cancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy common symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhoea, vomiting, and constipation resulting in both a significant clinical and financial burden. Chemotherapeutic drugs cause upregulation of ...

Dental implants are commonly used to replace missing teeth. However, the dysbiotic polymicrobial communities of peri-implant sites are responsible for peri-implant diseases, such as peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis. In this study, we analyzed the microbial characteristics of oral plaque from peri-implant pockets or sulci of healthy implants (n = 10), peri-implant mucositis (n = 8) an...

background: oral mucositis (om) remains the most common side effect of chemotherapy affects negatively on patients' quality of life. subjects and methods : convenience samples of patients who received chemotherapy were followed from first or second cycle of chemotherapy until om occurrence. we reviewed 75 female patients with breast cancer who received chemotherapy with mean age (47.2 sd ± 8.62...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to formulate ketoprofen (KET)-loaded Eudragit L and Eudragit S nanofibers (NFs) by the electrospinning technique for buccal administration to treat oral mucositis as a safe alternative to orally administered KET, which causes gastrointestinal tract (GIT) side effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS NFs were prepared by electrospinning using Eudragit L and Eudragit...

The objective of this study was to estimate health care-resource utilization in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. This was a prospective, longitudinal, multicenter, noninterventional study of mucositis in patients receiving radiation with or without chemotherapy for HNC. Mouth and throat soreness and functional impairment were measured using the Oral Mucositis Weekly Questionnaire-HNC. Resou...