ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022
Influence of Probiotics in Prevention and Treatment of Patients Who Undergo Chemotherapy or/and Radiotherapy and Suffer from Mucositis, Diarrhoea, Constipation, Nausea and Vomiting.
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- Colorectal Cancer: Therapeutic Approaches and Their Complications.Biomedicines · 2025Review
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- The Role of the Microbiome in Cancer Therapies: Current Evidence and Future Directions.Hematology/oncology clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Harnessing Lactobacillus reuteri-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Multifaceted Cancer Treatment.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Gut Microbiota Profile and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Infants: A Longitudinal Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Interplay between the abdominopelvic radiotherapy and gut microbiota.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Progress in Probiotic Science: Prospects of Functional Probiotic-Based Foods and Beverages.International journal of food science · 2025Review
- Worldwide Research Trends on Lung Cancer and Microbiota: A Bibliometric and Visualized Analysis.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
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- Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effects of Combined LiveBiology · 2024Article
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- Probiotic Bacteria Cannot Mitigate the Adverse Effects of Radioactive Iodine-131 Treatment.Cancers · 2023Article
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Abstract
The administration of probiotics to patients treated with chemo- and/or radiotherapy is assumed to be beneficial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of probiotic intake on the severity of selected gastrointestinal side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The searched databases included PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus from which twenty-one studies were included. Most of them concerned diarrhoea, however, two of the studies examined constipation, another two nausea and vomiting, and eight of the included studies regarded mucositis. The total number of patients equalled 2621. The time of the conducted therapy, the administered species, neoplasm pathology, and adjuvant therapy varied. The outcome was assessed by gathering information about the statistical significance of the improvements. An enhancement was observed in thirteen studies, where probiotics had a significant impact on each of the included chemo- and/or radiotherapy side effects. However, the heterogeneity of the assessed data makes it impossible to state a firm conclusion.
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