intravenous chemotherapy is an important mean for the treatment of cancers. infusion phlebitis (ph) is a common and acute complication of chemotherapy. the frequency of ph is about 70% in patients undergoing chemotherapeutic management. it can induce the pain, increase the risk of thrombophlebitis, lead to incomplete follow-up, and thereby, affect the patient’s health status. respecting the gre...

introduction: cancer and chemotherapy could decrease serum zinc level. in this study, serum zinc level was investigated at the beginning of cancer diagnosis and 3 months after chemotherapy in children with all types of cancer. method: in this cross sectional study forty-five 1-15 year old children who were newly diagnosed cancer cases (leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumor) were evaluated. patient...

background: recent researches have led to find strategies to prevent relapse and to improve survival for gastric cancer patients, including preoperative neo-adjuvant approaches. however, the efficacy of some neo-adjuvant regimens including 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin, and docetaxel have been less investigated. the present study evaluated the outcome and mid-term survival of patients with gastric ...

Abstract Background The purpose of this review was to evaluate studies in basic oral care interventions to update evidence based practice guidelines for preventing oral mucositis (OM) in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Material & Methods Pub Med database and Google Scholar were searched for all papers published between 2000 and December 2014 in English that were conducted using t...

radiotherapy in the head and neck region and chemotherapy might give rise to oral mucositis which is a severe and painful inflammation. there is no known definite cure for mucositis. a number of studies have attempted to evaluate the effect of low-power laser on radiotherapy- and chemotherapy-induced mucositis. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of low-power laser on the pr...