Randomized controlled trial of live lactobacillus acidophilus plus bifidobacterium bifidum in prophylaxis of diarrhea during radiotherapy in cervical cancer patients

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chitapanarux, Imjai ^a   Chitapanarux, Taned ^a   Traisathit, Patrinee ^b   Kudumpee, Sudkaneung ^a   Tharavichitkul, Ekkasit ^a   Lorvidhaya, Vicharn ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; CISPLATIN; INFLORAN; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVENING DOSAGE; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORNING DOSAGE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PLACEBOS; PROBIOTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951800189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-31     Document Type: Article

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