Open AccessRisk-scoring system for predicting mucositis in patients of head and neck cancer receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy [rssm-hn]
Author(s) -
Amritha Suresh,
Parvathi Varma,
Sudha Sinha,
S. Deepika,
R. Raman,
Muthiah Srinivasan,
T Mandapal,
C Obula Reddy,
Bhavna Anand
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.77100
Subject(s) - mucositis , medicine , head and neck cancer , chemoradiotherapy , receiver operating characteristic , radiation therapy , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , oncology , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , t stage , surgery , paleontology , physics , optics , biology
One of the most distressing complications of head and neck cancer patients on chemoradiotherapy is mucositis. There is no proper tool to predict its occurrence in these patients.