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Intervensi untuk mencegah mukositis oral dalam kalangan pesakit kanser yang menerima rawatan.

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Background

Treatment of cancer is increasingly more effective but is associated with short and long term side effects. Oral side effects remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to prevent them. One of these side effects is oral mucositis (mouth ulcers).

Objectives

To evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic agents for oral mucositis in patients with cancer receiving treatment, compared with other potentially active interventions, placebo or no treatment.

Search methods

Electronic searches of Cochrane Oral Health Group and PaPaS Trials Registers (to 16 February 2011), CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library 2011, Issue 1), MEDLINE via OVID (1950 to 16 February 2011), EMBASE via OVID (1980 to 16 February 2011), CINAHL via EBSCO (1980 to 16 February 2011), CANCERLIT via PubMed (1950 to 16 February 2011), OpenSIGLE (1980 to 2005) and LILACS via the Virtual Health Library (1980 to 16 February 2011) were undertaken. Reference lists from relevant articles were searched and the authors of eligible trials were contacted to identify trials and obtain additional information.

Selection criteria

Randomised controlled trials of interventions to prevent oral mucositis in patients receiving treatment for cancer.

Data collection and analysis

Information regarding methods, participants, interventions, outcome measures, results and risk of bias were independently extracted, in duplicate, by two review authors. Authors were contacted for further details where these were unclear. The Cochrane Collaboration statistical guidelines were followed and risk ratios calculated using random‐effects models.

Main results

A total of 131 studies with 10,514 randomised participants are now included. Overall only 8% of these studies were assessed as being at low risk of bias. Ten interventions, where there was more than one trial in the meta‐analysis, showed some statistically significant evidence of a benefit (albeit sometimes weak) for either preventing or reducing the severity of mucositis, compared to either a placebo or no treatment. These ten interventions were: aloe vera, amifostine, cryotherapy, granulocyte‐colony stimulating factor (G‐CSF), intravenous glutamine, honey, keratinocyte growth factor, laser, polymixin/tobramycin/amphotericin (PTA) antibiotic pastille/paste and sucralfate.

Authors' conclusions

Ten interventions were found to have some benefit with regard to preventing or reducing the severity of mucositis associated with cancer treatment. The strength of the evidence was variable and implications for practice include consideration that benefits may be specific for certain cancer types and treatment. There is a need for further well designed, and conducted trials with sufficient numbers of participants to perform subgroup analyses by type of disease and chemotherapeutic agent.

PICO

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

El uso y la enseñanza del modelo PICO están muy extendidos en el ámbito de la atención sanitaria basada en la evidencia para formular preguntas y estrategias de búsqueda y para caracterizar estudios o metanálisis clínicos. PICO son las siglas en inglés de cuatro posibles componentes de una pregunta de investigación: paciente, población o problema; intervención; comparación; desenlace (outcome).

Para saber más sobre el uso del modelo PICO, puede consultar el Manual Cochrane.

Intervensi untuk mencegah mukositis oral dalam kalangan pesakit kanser yang menerima rawatan.

Rawatan untuk kanser (termasuk transplan sumsum tulang) boleh menyebabkan mukositis oral (ulser yang teruk di dalam mulut) Kesakitan yang berlaku akan menyukarkan makan, minum dan menelan, dan boleh dikaitkan dengan jangkitan yang mungkin memerlukan pesakit tersebut tinggal lebih lama di hospital. Pelbagai strategi diguna untuk mencegah keadaan ini dan ulasan‐ulasan kajian mendapati sesetengah strategi adalah berkesan. Dua intervensi, krioterapi (ketul ais) dan faktor pertumbuhan keratinosit (palifermin ®) menunjukkan sedikit manfaat dalam mencegah mukositis. Sukralfat adalah berkesan untuk mengurangkan keterukan mukositis, dan tujuh intervensi lain juga berkesan iaitu aloe vera, amifostine, glutamin intravena, faktor perangsang koloni granulosit (G‐CSF), madu, laser dan lozeng antibiotik polymixin/tobramycin/amohotericin (PTA) menunjukkan bukti manfaat tetapi lebih lemah. Strategi‐strategi tersebut dinilai dalam kalangan pesakit pelbagai jenis kanser yang menerima pelbagai jenis rawatan kanser.Manfaat mungkin merujuk kepada jenis penyakit dan kombinasi rawatan yang dinilai.