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Baseline gut microbiota composition is associated with oral mucositis and tumour recurrence in patients with head and neck cancer: a pilot study
2022-08-03
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<h4>Purpose: </h4> Mounting evidence suggests the gut microbiome influences radiotherapy efficacy and toxicity by modulating immune signalling. However, its contribution to radiotherapy outcomes in head and neck cancer (HNC) is yet to be investigated. This study, therefore, aimed to uncover associations between an individual’s pre-therapy gut microbiota and i) severity of radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis (OM),...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bbce9c30-5bb8-55ae-9796-3d2858fa50c3
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1895894/v1
