aser effect in the treatment of mouth wounds caused by the treatment of head and neck cancer
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Convalescence after radiotherapy, oral mucositis, head and neck cancerC07.465.864C04.588.443E02.815
- Registration Number
- RBR-5h4y4n
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de Goiás
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Volunteers with more than 18 years. Both sexes. Toothed or edentulous. With cancer of the head and neck that will undergo radiotherapy (minimum dose of 50Gy) and chemotherapy
Exclusion Criteria
Volunteers with tumors of salivary glands or Sjogren's syndrome. Patients previously submitted to radiotherapy in the head and neck region or chemotherapy. Patients with lymphoma. Patients with melanoma. Patients with skin cancer.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ower cost due to severe levels of oral mucositis (Degrees III and IV of the World Health Organization scale) the experimental group evaluated by appropriate statistical tests according to With the distribution of the data. Costs will be calculated with opioid medications, use of probes, hospitalizations and parenteral nutrition.;Lower levels per deciliter of saliva in the mediators of inflammation evaluated by flow cytometry in the experimental group evaluated by appropriate statistical tests according to With the distribution of the data.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Radiotherapy interventions