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Antimicrobials, mucosal coating agents, anesthetics, analgesics, and nutritional supplements for alimentary tract mucositis

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This review focuses on the value of several groups of agents for the prevention and treatment of mucositis. The review refers to alimentary mucositis as a generalized term that includes oral mucositis and gastrointestinal mucositis. This paper is part of the systematic review made by the mucositis study group which operates in the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC)/International Society of Oral Oncology (ISOO). Several new guidelines are suggested in this review as an update to the primary systematic review that was published by the same group in 2004.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Andrei Barasch

  2. Department of Oral Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, School of Dental Medicine, P.O. Box 12272, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

    Sharon Elad

  3. Hematology/Oncology Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and Hartford Whalers, Childhood Cancer University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

    Arnold Altman

  4. University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA

    Kathryn Damato

  5. Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences (m/c 838), University of Illinois, 801 S. Paulina Street, Room 569B, Chicago, IL, 60612-7213, USA

    Joel Epstein

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Barasch, A., Elad, S., Altman, A. et al. Antimicrobials, mucosal coating agents, anesthetics, analgesics, and nutritional supplements for alimentary tract mucositis. Support Care Cancer 14, 528–532 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-006-0066-1

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