ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2023
Dose-limiting mucositis: friend or foe?
Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Highly Biomimetic Ectodermal Epithelial Organoids for Epithelial Barrier Stimulation Assays.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Using Natural Language Processing to Identify Symptomatic Adverse Events in Pediatric Oncology: Tutorial for Clinician Researchers.JMIR bioinformatics and biotechnology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Dose-limiting toxicities are ubiquitous to cancer-directed therapy, presenting with severity to a degree that necessitates therapy de-escalation, pause, or discontinuation. To date, there is incredible limited understanding if these therapy de-escalations present risk for survival by limiting delivery of intensive therapy, or if they indicate physiologic susceptibility and are a favorable prognostic indicator. Mucositis is an excellent illustration of the current paradox of dose-limiting toxicities-it has existed alongside therapy for eight decades, but despite its presence, there is an incomplete understanding of how it develops, why it varies between oncologic populations, and if it relates to cancer survival. Rigorous methodologic approaches in symptom science holds potential to better understand mucositis, to determine if it is a marker of response or threat, and evaluate if it holds potential to guide therapy delivery.
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