Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment

Helen V Worthington; Jan E Clarkson; Tim OB Eden

doi:10.1002/14651858.CD000978.pub3

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Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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17 octubre 2007see what's new

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Intervention

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Review

Grupo Editorial Cochrane:

Grupo Cochrane de Salud oral

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Copyright © 2008 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Helen V Worthington

Correspondencia a: Cochrane Oral Health Group, MANDEC, School of Dentistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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Jan E Clarkson

Dental Health Services Research Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Tim OB Eden

Young Oncology Unit, Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester, UK

Contributions of authors

Helen Worthington (HW) and Jan Clarkson (JC) wrote the protocol and review. HW co‐ordinated the review and wrote the letters to authors. HW and JC independently and in duplicate assessed the eligibility of trials, extracted data and assessed the quality of the trials. Tim Eden (OE) provided advice on cancer, its treatment and the interventions included in the review and checked the data. HW conducted the statistical analysis.

Sources of support

Internal sources

The University of Manchester, UK.
Chief Scientists Office, Scottish Executive, UK.
NHS Education for Scotland, UK.
University of Dundee, UK.

External sources

NIDCR grant ref 1 DE016950‐01, USA.

Declarations of interest

None known.

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to Sylvia Bickley, Trials Search Co‐ordinator for the Cochrane Oral Health Group for carrying out the searches for the review; Luisa Fernandez Mauleffinch, Co‐ordinator for the Cochrane Oral Health Group for her help with the administration of the review; Phil Riley for his help in locating all the articles for the review, sending out letters to authors and helping collate the information for the review.

The help and expertise of the following is gratefully acknowledged: Marco Esposito (Italian translations, The University of Manchester); Tatiana Macfarlane (Russian translations, University of Aberdeen); Valeria Marinho (Spanish/Portuguese translations, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK); Shi Zongdao and Wu Jiapei (Chinese translations, Sichuan University); and Mikako Hayashi and Kumiko Kasashi (Japanese translations, University of Osaka) for providing translations of the trial reports and completing the data extraction forms.

We would also like to thank the following investigators who replied to our request for additional information about their trials: Professors S Cascinu, D Cella, MJ Dodd, GA Ferretti, T Feyerabend, P Gotzshe, CL Loprinzi, S Wang and Drs PM Anderson, B Bensinger, BM Biswal, C Bokemeyer, J Bourhis, H Brincker, J Buentzel, L Cerchietti, L Damon, C Dazzi, TC Dickson, P Dietrich, A Duenas‐Gonzalez, S El Sayed, S Elad, MV Ertkin, GA Ferretti, R Foote, L Frazen, Freytes, J Hartmann, M Heydt, R Haddad, E Huang, N Ifrah, SA Jebb, M Katano, J Leborgne, P Lockhart, G Masucci, SH Okuno, N Piccirillo, HC Pillsbury, R Rahn, K Saarilahti, C Scarantino, JL Shenep, JA Sloan, A Spencer, Spielberger, C Sportes, M Stokman, C Su, RP Symonds, A Trotti, YB Wahlin, H Whelan.

We would also like to thank those who have provided comments and editorial input into this review.

The administration of this review has been aided by a USA NIDCR grant, reference 1 R03 DE0 16950‐01.

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