Individualized pharmacological treatment of oral mucositis pain in patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiotherapy

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1343-1350

  Ling, Ingrid Stenstrom ^a   Larsson, Britt ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Mucositis; Pain; Pain treatment; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BENZYDAMINE; BETAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN; SHORT ACTING DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH PAIN; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; ORAL MUCOSITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMATITIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 80051601584     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-0955-1     Document Type: Article

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