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Identifying novel genes and biological processes relevant to the development of cancer therapy-induced mucositis: An informative gene network analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Reyes-Gibby Cielito C, Melkonian Stephanie C, Wang Jian, Yu Robert K, Shelburne Samuel A, Lu Charles, Gunn Gary Brandon, Chambers Mark S, Hanna Ehab Y, Yeung Sai-Ching J, Shete Sanjay
Abstract excerpt
Mucositis is a complex, dose-limiting toxicity of chemotherapy or radiotherapy that leads to painful mouth ulcers, difficulty eating or swallowing, gastrointestinal distress, and reduced quality of life for patients with cancer. Mucositis is most common for those undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and for those being treated for malignancies of the head and neck....
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