A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Efficacy of Curcumin/Turmeric for the Prevention and Amelioration of Radiotherapy/Radiochemotherapy Induced Oral Mucositis in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.
Sreedevi DharmanMaragathavalli GKarpagavalli ShanmugasundaramRajesh Kumar SampathPublished in: Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP (2021)
A systematic literature search with meta-analysis were performed using Mesh terms in PubMed, Google scholar, Science Direct, Cochrane library and manual searching, articles published from 2010 to April 2021 were included. Clinical trials that studied the efficacy/effects of turmeric / curcumin in management of RT/RCT induced OM in HNC patients were included. Statistical Analysis were done to calculate the pooled Risk ratio at 95%confidence interval with significance at p.
Keyphrases
- systematic review
- clinical trial
- high glucose
- diabetic rats
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- radiation induced
- early stage
- locally advanced
- drug induced
- prognostic factors
- meta analyses
- squamous cell carcinoma
- oxidative stress
- randomized controlled trial
- peritoneal dialysis
- phase ii
- rectal cancer
- patient reported
- double blind