Preventive versus curative photobiomodulation for oral mucositis in patients with multiple myeloma undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: which approach is more effective?
Valentina Prevolnik-RupelArianna CornacchiaMonica PoianiSara MohamedEleonora De BellisMario BalleriniTheodora Magdalena Bogdan PredaAugusto PoropatRoberto Di LenardaFrancesco ZajaMatteo BiasottoGiulia OttavianiPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2024)
The timing for PBM therapy in patients undergoing HSCT is crucial: when started on the first day of conditioning, it significantly reduces both pain and OM severity, providing an important benefit also in subjective oral functions such as speaking, swallowing, and chewing, thus increasing the overall adherence to the oncological therapies.
Keyphrases
- patients undergoing
- multiple myeloma
- rectal cancer
- chronic pain
- pain management
- radiation induced
- neuropathic pain
- prostate cancer
- stem cells
- robot assisted
- hematopoietic stem cell
- radical prostatectomy
- spinal cord injury
- sleep quality
- bone marrow
- weight loss
- adipose tissue
- minimally invasive
- skeletal muscle
- postoperative pain
- wound healing