Does sucralfate reduce the acute side-effects in head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy? A double-blind randomized trial

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-153

  Lievens, Yolande ^a   Haustermans, Karin ^a   Van den Weyngaert, Danielle ^b   Van den Bogaert, Walter ^a   Scalliet, Pierre ^b   Hutsebaut, Liesbeth ^a   Fowler, Jack ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AZ Middelheim ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Side effects; Sucralfate

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SUCRALFATE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPHAGIA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NAUSEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SUCRALFATE;

EID: 0031829932     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(97)00231-4     Document Type: Article

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