Evidence Updates - Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment. Cochrane Database including professional commentaries

also:  see PubMed link (abstract w/o commentary) to abstract

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).