Mucosite em pacientes portadores de câncer de cabeça e pescoço submetidos à radioquimioterapia
The objective of present study was to classify oral mucositis according to the Common Toxicity Criterion (CTC) international parameters in head and neck tumor patients simultaneously treated with radio and chemotherapy, and characterize a patient profile in our area, observing the individuals'...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/6777 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62342011000600009 http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/6777 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Head and neck neoplasms Radiotherapy Drug therapy Mucositis Oncologic nursing Neoplasias de cabeça e pescoço Radioterapia Quimioterapia Mucosite Enfermagem oncológica |
| Sumario: | The objective of present study was to classify oral mucositis according to the Common Toxicity Criterion (CTC) international parameters in head and neck tumor patients simultaneously treated with radio and chemotherapy, and characterize a patient profile in our area, observing the individuals' habits, tumor characteristics, treatment protocol and acute reaction intensity. Fifty patients undergoing simultaneous 66 to 70 Gy megavoltage radiotherapy and cisplatin/carboplatin chemotherapy were evaluated in this study. Weekly evaluations of the degree of mucositis were perfoemed according to CTC, a four-degree ordinal scale; 36% of all patients and 100% of those with diabetes discontinued treatment due to mucositis, showing that this pathology contributes to the severity of mucositis. |
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