TY - JOUR
T1 - Studies on supportive care in oral mucositis
T2 - Random or randomised?
AU - Van der Rijt, Carin C.D.
AU - Van Zuijlen, L.
PY - 2001/11
Y1 - 2001/11
N2 - During the last decades, measures on supportive care are considered standard in everyday oncology practice. Supportive care measures not only prevent or ameliorate complications of antitumour therapy and thereby increase the patients' quality of life, they also make anti-tumour therapy in sufficient doses possible. Due to large-scaled clinical trials, the treatment of chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting has become evidence-based in current practice. The development of guidelines on the use of haematopoetic growth factors in chemotherapy-induced leucopenia and anaemia was also based on clinical trials. For the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis, however, scarcely any evidence exists. [...]
AB - During the last decades, measures on supportive care are considered standard in everyday oncology practice. Supportive care measures not only prevent or ameliorate complications of antitumour therapy and thereby increase the patients' quality of life, they also make anti-tumour therapy in sufficient doses possible. Due to large-scaled clinical trials, the treatment of chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting has become evidence-based in current practice. The development of guidelines on the use of haematopoetic growth factors in chemotherapy-induced leucopenia and anaemia was also based on clinical trials. For the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis, however, scarcely any evidence exists. [...]
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034779285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)00248-9
DO - 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)00248-9
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 11597373
AN - SCOPUS:0034779285
SN - 0959-8049
VL - 37
SP - 1971
EP - 1975
JO - European Journal of Cancer
JF - European Journal of Cancer
IS - 16
ER -
