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Cancer - What is mucositis continues
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- cancer mucositis
Preview- It could seem to be apparant that, thirty to sixty percent of patients which undergo radiation (i.e., radiatio) therapy (i.e., therapeusis, or therapia) for head (i.e., caput) and neck (i.e., cervix, or collum) cancer may be affected by mucositis, and more than 90% of patients receiving chemo-radiationterapy, as well. Therapy, treatment. Radiation therapy is the use of high-energy radiation from x-rays, gamma rays, neutrons, protons, and other sources to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (external (i.e., externus)-beam radiation therapy), or it may come from radioactive (i.e., radio-) material placed in the body near cancer cells (internal radiation therapy). Systemic radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance, such as a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody, that travels in the blood to tissues throughout the body. Also called irradiation and radiotherapy (i.e., radiation oncology). Head and neck cancer, cancer that arises in the head or neck region (in the nasal (i.e., rhinal) cavity, sinuses, lips, mouth, salivary (i.e., sialic, or sialine) glands, throat (i.e., gullet), or larynx [voice (i.e., vox) box]). Radiation, energy released in the form of particle or electromagnetic waves. Common sources of radiation include radon gas, cosmic rays from outer space (i.e., spatium), medical x-rays, and energy given off by a radioisotope (unstable form of a chemical element that releases radiation as it breaks down and becomes more stable).
- It seems to be, cancer therapy and oral mucositis - an approval of drug prophylaxis. Oral, by or having to do with the mouth. Prophylaxis is an attempt to prevent disease.
- It`s apparent that, the burdens of cancer therapy clinical and economic outcomes of chemotherapy-induced mucositis. Clinical, having to do with the examination and treatment of patients. Chemotherapy, treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells.
